Jerry Brito
Impulsively redesigning since 1999.
Jerry Brito is a policy wonk and web developer in Washington, DC.
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Tumbleroo was on iPad Today with Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane! You can catch the whole episode and subscribe to the show here. Thanks so much to the TWiT team for having us on!
Means more than any other TV I’ve done.
Yours truly speaking at the Congressional Transparency Caucus launch event last week. I’m on at about minute 6.
Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet 
No, I didn’t pick the title, but here’s an op-ed by yours truly and Tate Watkins that ran earlier this week in the Christian Science Monitor.
NY Times: Take $787 Billion. Now Show Where It’s Going.
I was quoted yesterday in this NY Times article about Edward Tufte joining the RAT Board:
Jerry Brito, a senior research fellow at George Mason University, has been monitoring the stimulus at his site, stimuluswatch.org. “What we want is the raw data. We don’t need a beautiful site,” Mr. Brito said. In fact, he says that recovery.gov is too flashy and too crowded, and uses maps too much instead of simple tables. “Tufte can do a lot of good here,” he said. “There is a lot of low-hanging fruit.”
I was on NewsChannel 8’s “Federal News Tonight” talking about EarmarkData.org.
Jerry Brito — Watching the Stimulus
Me on the Cato Daily Podcast discussing Stimulus Watch 2.0.
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Me on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi show talking about StimulusWatch.org.
If I sound like I don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s because I specifically told the producer I couldn’t address local stimulus projects, but could talk about the transparency and accountability effort nationally and, of course, the show was all about local impact.
Me on Federal News Radio discussing the new features available on Stimulus Watch 2.0. Check out our new advanced search!
This is me on WUSA Channel 9 News last night talking about government transparency and the new StimulusWatch.org which went live today.
While the original site featured proposed stimulus projects taken from the U.S. Conference of Mayors survey, this new version contains actual stimulus spending in your neighborhood. We get our data from the official recipient reports available at Recovery.gov. We will update the data quarterly when Recovery.gov makes new data available.
You can search for contracts and grants awards by state and city, by awarding agency, or by recipient. (Keyword searching is coming soon.) When you find an award that interests you, you can vote on whether you are satisfied with it or not, add to the wiki description of the project, and join in the conversation about the award in the comments section.
Check it out, blog it, tweet it, and tell your friends!
I was on NewsChannel 8’s “Federal News Tonight” talking about OpenRegs.com.
Me on Fox and Friends discussing Recovery.gov. Man they tried to get me to say this was somehow a fixed contract, but there’s no evidence of that. The Chyrons they used (like the “Windfall Fix-It Job” you see on the thumbnail above) were insane. Not sure I’ll do Fox News again.
Here’s me on Federal News Radio this morning talking about the $9.5 million contract to redesign Recovery.gov. Click to take a listen.
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.
My work was profiled on All Things Considered yesterday. Take a listen.
Me on public radio’s Kojo Nnamdi show with NYT’s Derek Willis and Pew’s Amy Mitchell talking about online transparency and the future of local news.
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