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.

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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.