Ben Kallos, former chief of staff to Assemblyman Jonathan Bing who is currently working on Mark Green's campaign, is launching a new Web site that allows users to search the attendance records of state lawmakers, making available information that the state isn’t so quick to provide. (Ask folks in the Albany press corps about that.) Read More
ALBANY—Philip Anderson, formerly a writer for the Albany Project, walked through the LCA press room this morning to meet reporters he’ll be dealing with as director of new media communications.
Anderson’s hire, along with those of Brian Keeler as director of communications and Andrew Hoppin as chief information officer, is part of the larger Read More
ALBANY—Philip Anderson, formerly a writer for the Albany Project, walked through the LCA press room this morning to meet reporters he'll be dealing with as director of new media communications.
Anderson's hire, along with those of Brian Keeler as director of communications and Andrew Hoppin as chief information officer, is part of the Read More
ALBANY—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is in Western New York today, unveiling today unveiled a souped-up version of his government accountability web site http://www.sunlightny.com.
Cuomo’s release says the new version of the site contains interactive maps; links to the 2009-2010 state budget; all 10,036 member items in 2008-2009 state budget; bill jackets containing Read More
ALBANY—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is in Western New York today, unveiling today unveiled a souped-up version of his government accountability web site www.sunlightny.com.
Cuomo's release says the new version of the site contains interactive maps; links to the 2009-2010 state budget; all 10,036 member items in 2008-2009 state budget; bill jackets containing information from Read More
ALBANY—State Senate Democrats have hired a communications director: Brian Keeler.
He has long ties to blogging and new media. After an unsuccessful bid against State Senator Steve Saland in 2006, Keeler co-founded the Albany Project blog. He currently works with VShift.
“The thing that I like about Malcolm and Angelo is that they Read More
ALBANY—State Senate Democrats have hired a communications director: Brian Keeler.
He has long ties to blogging and new media. After an unsuccessful bid against State Senator Steve Saland in 2006, Keeler co-founded the Albany Project blog. He currently works with VShift.
"The thing that I like about Malcolm and Angelo is that Read More
On March 23, at the first Open Government NYC Meetup at the New Work City space on Varick Street, techies got into a discussion about data. “Even if you took the firewall down around the government, they wouldn’t know where anything is either,” said Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum and Read More
A few months ago, Andrew Hoppin was advising President Obama’s NASA transition team and contemplating his next move. He was settling back into New York after leaving the NASA Ames Research Center near Sunnyvale, Calif., where he co-founded and managed the NASA CoLab—a program that aimed to bring efficiency and transparency to the creaky Read More
Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all when it comes to influencing our government. Because let’s face it: It took a year to get used to Facebook. Read More
