User:Conor Kenny/Politics Online Conference

Greetings! This is a list of links I will be using in my presentation at the Politics Online Conference. If you're looking for my bio it can be found here.

Links

First there were web pages

• Early AOL
• Virginia Postrel review

Then there were blogs

• Early Instapundit
• Contemporary Instapundit
• Comment thread at Eschaton

Then bloggers got together on group blogs

• MyDD homepage
• RedState homepage
• MyDD post: A MyDD-DailyKos Generation Gap?
• DailyKos homepage
• Visual map of the blogosphere

Wikis have been developing parallel to blogs

• Wikipedia Main Page
• Wikipedia John McCain profile
• Wikipedia John McCain talk page

This is SourceWatch/Congresspedia

• Congresspedia homepage
• SourceWatch homepage
• SourceWatch references policy page
• SourceWatch Editorial policy page
• SourceWatch recent changes
• Google search for "John McCain"
• SourceWatch for advocacy and research organizations
• SourceWatch for citizen journalists and local bloggers
• SourceWatch Student Editor Program

Tools for collaborative reporting and analysis

• The Sunlight Foundation
  • Distributive research project: Is Congress a Family Business?
  • Watchdogging 101

Making data available and mashing it up

• Sunlight Labs
  • Earmark mashups
  • Sunlight Seekr
• FedSpending.org
• OpenSecrets.org
  • Personal financial disclosures for members of Congress
  • Congressional travel disclosures
  • Revolving door disclosures
• OpenCongress

Creating data (putting more information online)

• OpenHouseProject
• The Sunlight Network and its Punch Clock Campaign.