Month: December 2008

LDA Q4 Reminder

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 30, 2008
Categories In LDA

The Office of the Clerk of the House offers this reminder on the Quarterly LDA Report due January 21, 2009. The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, as amended by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, requires those who have registered as lobbyists to file quarterly reports with the Clerk of the U.S. […]

Word Cloud

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 29, 2008
Categories In Meta

A “word cloud” is a graphics file that emphasizes words that appear more frequently in any text, such as the text on a website. For example, here’s a word cloud for President-elect Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. Here’s this site’s word cloud for October 2008:

MoveOn.Org President on Change.gov

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 29, 2008
Categories In IRS

Eli Pariser wrote this piece for yesterday’s Post. He discusses the future of Moveon.org in relation to President-elect Obama’s agenda and internet tools. So if Obama’s agenda is to prevail, he needs to draw on a deeply committed, deeply engaged citizenry. No one else can tip the scale.