Tracking Congress just got easy
Posted by Jacque on June 24th, 2008
Web 2.0 features are “put to a socially significant use” at OpenCongress, says Read/WriteWeb.
OpenCongress recently inroduced 13 new features, and is designed to make it easy to track activities in the US congress. If you are at all interested in politics and what’s happening in government, you will appreciate this project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.
Use OpenCongress to read news, commentary, and blog buzz, link to bills you are interested in, follow hot topics, share information through Digg, StumbleUpon, etc., and find out what your local members of Congress are doing. It’s quick and easy to establish an RSS feed.
You can create a personal account with OpenID, and enjoy navigating with “a perfect amount of AJAX.” Outside news and data is pulled into the site, rated by users and actively discussed.
There are many widgets to choose among, helping you to track trends, bills, and issues in particular areas. Read/WriteWeb also offers suggestions to OpenCongress on additional useful features they might develop.
