January 10, 2005
And The Winner Is ... GovTrack.us
GUEST: Jack O'Toole
In November of last year, Technorati launched its first-ever Developers Contest, a competition designed to encourage programmers to create new and innovative uses for the company's massive real-time database of weblog postings. (At the time of this writing, Technorati reported that it was tracking the content of 5,790,155 blogs worldwide.) And when the winners were announced last Friday, the Grand Prize went to Penn grad student Joshua Tauberer's GovTrack.us, "a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary."
Congratulations, Joshua. And, just as important, thanks. As a result of your efforts, keeping an eye on the US Congress, and what citizen journalists around the world are saying about it, has never been easier.
POSTSCRIPT: Congratulations, too, to Aaron Swartz and Stefan Magdalinski, who were honored with runner up awards for PersonalDemocracy.com and Whitelabel.org, respectively.
And, while we're at it, let's not forget the competition's "nonpolitical" winners: Niall Kennedy for NetNewsWire RSS Cosmos, Timothy Appnel for XML::XOXO Perl Library, and Michael Dale for Touchgraph Integration.
Posted by Jack O'Toole at January 10, 2005 05:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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