Comments for Joshua Tauberer's Blog http://razor.occams.info/blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:21:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding Comment on Return from Blogging Hiatus by Joshua Tauberer http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/return-from-blogging-hiatus/#comment-43 Joshua Tauberer Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:30:37 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=335#comment-43 The site is primarily (95%) just me. By the end of the year I expect three other people to have received money for contributing to the site, two from the site's advertising revenue and one from a Sunlight Foundation grant. I don't "pay" myself, exactly, though the remainder of the ad revenue goes into my bank account for lack of a better place. The site is primarily (95%) just me. By the end of the year I expect three other people to have received money for contributing to the site, two from the site’s advertising revenue and one from a Sunlight Foundation grant. I don’t “pay” myself, exactly, though the remainder of the ad revenue goes into my bank account for lack of a better place.

]]> Comment on Return from Blogging Hiatus by Doug Lindsey http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/return-from-blogging-hiatus/#comment-42 Doug Lindsey Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:59:50 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=335#comment-42 How many people work at GovTrack.us and do they get Paid? How many people work at GovTrack.us and do they get Paid?

]]> Comment on oGosh! IRC Meeting Aug 16 4pm EDT by Joshua Tauberer http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/ogosh-irc-meeting-aug-16-4pm-edt/#comment-5 Joshua Tauberer Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:53:48 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=243#comment-5 I was doing this years before there was watchdog.net. :) In any case, the point isn't to duplicate the programming effort that is happening at watchdog but to include them in a larger community. I think I'd respond the same way to your second paragraph: my goal with this is really community building, not to build a new tool. But, I totally agree that a global view is something that would be both completely new and useful. You should start something! I was doing this years before there was watchdog.net. :) In any case, the point isn’t to duplicate the programming effort that is happening at watchdog but to include them in a larger community. I think I’d respond the same way to your second paragraph: my goal with this is really community building, not to build a new tool.

But, I totally agree that a global view is something that would be both completely new and useful. You should start something!

]]> Comment on oGosh! IRC Meeting Aug 16 4pm EDT by AlexH http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/ogosh-irc-meeting-aug-16-4pm-edt/#comment-4 AlexH Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:42:07 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=243#comment-4 I understand the desire to focus on a single location, but it strikes me that there are a lot of people doing the same thing (e.g., http://watchdog.net/ ) and it's a shame to re-invent the wheel when there are open source ones out there already. What would be particularly powerful would be the ability to take a global view of governance as well: while legislative processes are very different, the end result is very similar, and a lot of legislation pops up in one jurisdiction having already been passed in another (witness DMCA -> EUCD, for example). I understand the desire to focus on a single location, but it strikes me that there are a lot of people doing the same thing (e.g., http://watchdog.net/ ) and it’s a shame to re-invent the wheel when there are open source ones out there already.

What would be particularly powerful would be the ability to take a global view of governance as well: while legislative processes are very different, the end result is very similar, and a lot of legislation pops up in one jurisdiction having already been passed in another (witness DMCA -> EUCD, for example).

]]> Comment on oGosh! IRC Meeting Aug 16 4pm EDT by Joshua Tauberer http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/ogosh-irc-meeting-aug-16-4pm-edt/#comment-3 Joshua Tauberer Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:27 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=243#comment-3 Though my primary goal is to focus on the U.S. community, I know at least one person from MySociety will find out (or found out already) when I post the event on some more mail lists. Though my primary goal is to focus on the U.S. community, I know at least one person from MySociety will find out (or found out already) when I post the event on some more mail lists.

]]> Comment on oGosh! IRC Meeting Aug 16 4pm EDT by AlexH http://razor.occams.info/blog/2008/08/06/ogosh-irc-meeting-aug-16-4pm-edt/#comment-2 AlexH Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:56 +0000 http://razor.occams.info/blog/?p=243#comment-2 Have you invited the people at http://www.mysociety.org/ ? Have you invited the people at http://www.mysociety.org/ ?

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