We've been looking for a convenient excuse to blog about the Sunlight Foundation since its launch several months ago, and today it obliges with the debut of the Punch Clock Campaign.
Sunlight
is all about nonpartisan transparency in government: using the
Internet's ability to abstract, aggregate, and disseminate information
to subject government operations to greater public oversight and
thence, goes the story, greater virtue. Their page hosts a cornucopia of government-oversight resources and links.
(The authorities have some contrastinguses in mind for newfangled technology.)
Punch
Clock has an interesting angle that may or may not work: asking
members to publish their daily schedules (after the fact) on the
Internets. Result: you get to see when they're meeting with corporate
lobbyist D. Vader and when they're playing solitaire when they should
be fighting to stay awake through some insufferable subcommittee
testimony. It might have been inspired by Sunlight's report on the
109th's record-settingly slack work schedule.