Jerry Brito

Impulsively redesigning since 1999.
1 day ago

Meeting Ticker

Give it the number of people in a meeting, the average salary, hit start, and watch the money burn. Productively.
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2 days ago
“ In the future a famous person will die every 15 minutes.
—Joanne McNeil
2 days ago
Saw Transformers 2. At any given moment you have no idea what’s going on, but it is always loud. Any time they wrote themselves into a corner, they would blow something up to divert your attention. Alas, I can recommend Transformers.
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3 days ago
I had no clue what I was looking at, but I still liked it more than Terminator 4.
I had no clue what I was looking at, but I still liked it more than Terminator 4.
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3 days ago
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I’m on the first episode of Inside State and Local Policy, produced by the amazing Kathleen O’Hearn. Jim Musser and I discuss transparency in the states.

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3 days ago
NPR has a great idea. Take pictures of the audience at congressional hearings and ask your readers to identify those in the audience. They did it at a Senate hearing on health reform two weeks ago and its interesting to see who are the lobbyists in the room. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any new persons identified since the page went up. For crowdsourcing to work you need a critical mass, and they probably don’t have it. If you’re a DC denizen, take a look and see if you spot someone familiar.
NPR has a great idea. Take pictures of the audience at congressional hearings and ask your readers to identify those in the audience. They did it at a Senate hearing on health reform two weeks ago and its interesting to see who are the lobbyists in the room. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any new persons identified since the page went up. For crowdsourcing to work you need a critical mass, and they probably don’t have it. If you’re a DC denizen, take a look and see if you spot someone familiar.
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1 week ago
“I’m Fat and Nobody Likes Me”- Chair.

these guys are the shit.

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1 week ago
OMB has released its new guidance to agencies on recovery fund reporting. Looks like it’s final that they will only mandate reporting two levels down from the federal government. Also, it’s not clear at all where the public and sites like StimulusWatch.org will be able to get the raw data. As this chart from the guidance shows, the recipient reporting site FederalSpending.gov will (somehow) publish the data that Recovery.gov will use for its public presentation. My questions is, Can I haz public API?
OMB has released its new guidance to agencies on recovery fund reporting. Looks like it’s final that they will only mandate reporting two levels down from the federal government. Also, it’s not clear at all where the public and sites like StimulusWatch.org will be able to get the raw data. As this chart from the guidance shows, the recipient reporting site FederalSpending.gov will (somehow) publish the data that Recovery.gov will use for its public presentation. My questions is, Can I haz public API?
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1 week ago

NYT: White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online

Huh. You can “change the terms of a campaign pledge” and it’s not “breaking the pledge” it seems. Jim is right. Waiting five days to sign a bill matters. Why else wouldn’t they be doing it? There isn’t anybody in this town who doesn’t know that the “technical difficulties” excuse is B.S.
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1 week ago
Pretty damn awesome. Too bad the audience doesn’t get it.
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2 weeks ago
My first iPhone 3G S video.
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