Posts by Nancy Scola

Question: Does Quora Do Politics? Answer:...

BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, March 17 2011

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Opening Dili

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

East Timor gets a transparency portal. Read More

Boehner Tasks Team with Updating the House

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

When it comes to tech, it can still seem like the late '90s, perhaps early aughts in the U.S. House of Representatives. With that in mind, Speaker John Boehner announced today that he's assembling a "House ... Read More

Obama's Boing Boing Habit

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

At last week's Gridiron Dinner, it seems, Barack Obama joked about his online reading practices "And while I know I have my share of critics out there, I don't focus on the negative stuff. I just don't pay much ... Read More

How Google's Looking for Haley Barbour

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

Slate's Justin Elliot parses the severity of Haley Barbour's "Google problem." (Still, a point in Barbour's column is that the first result for a straight name search on Barbour is governorbarbour.com, his ... Read More

Democrats Hiring for Redistricting Desk

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

One area where political data chops developed over the last few years will likely be shortly be called into greater service: redistricting. The DNC's tech department is in the market for a data-savvy person for its ... Read More

And the Award for Acceleration Goes to...

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

A sign, perhaps, of how government geekery is going mainstream geek? Legislative innovators PopVox won the prize for best social media and networking site in SXSW's "Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator" competition ... Read More

And the Award for Openness Goes to...

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

President Obama's getting a transparency award today, right at the moment he's getting a swell of press for being opaque. His administration's focus has been on revamping institutional systems, but the short-term effect ... Read More

DIY Radiation Mapping

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

Getting passed around today, unsurprisingly, is the National Radiation Map, "depicting environmental radiation levels across the USA, updated in real time every minute." They're looking for people to set up ... Read More

How Holy an Alliance? Booker "Partners" with Patch

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 16 2011

Lost in the news that Twitter's Biz Stone was joining up with the merged AOL-HuffPo as a "strategic adviser for social impact" was word of another untraditional media joining-of-forces: AOL's local news site ... Read More

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