This article takes a brief look at basic web findability guidelines, how they are addressed by federal guidelines in the United States, and how the FCC, an agency which most commonly deals with Internet issues, fails some basic tests of such guidelines.
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Public Document Publishing Guidelines and the FCC
by Jon Garfunkel on January 13, 2008. Governance SearchWhipster – who supports what
by Jon Garfunkel on March 31, 2007. Governance Building/ConsensusThe Congress Votes Database from the Washington Post tells you how Senators and Representatives have voted.
But wouldn't it be useful to know what their positions are on issues coming up?
In politics, it's the whip who counts the supports before a vote. Hence: Whipster.
Take a look at the amount of effort undertaken by Talking Points Memo and by Porkbusters last August — incidentally, not regarding a specific vote, but regarding finding out who was the Senator who placed the "secret hold" on a bill (which would have created a public, searchable database on federal grants contracts).

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