USAspending.gov 2.0 gets its money’s worth
- Luke Fretwell · May 21, 2010, 12:13 am
Version 2.0 of USAspending.gov launched this week and includes a cleaner, more elegant user interface and search filtering on all Federal government spending. The new site was developed in Drupal and is partially hosted on NASA’s Nebula cloud service.




Flagship Initiatives Shine in Open Government Plans
Ever since Open Government Day – the 120 day deadline in the OGD when agencies had to release Open Government Plans – I’ve been pouring over them hoping to get a better understanding of how openness is going to be implemented. If we are to judge government openness by the barrage of documents we received last Wednesday, then we open government advocates ought to be very happy! But what are these documents made of, anyway? A word cloud illustrates it quite well – all the buzzwords that you would expect: Information, government, data, open, public.