I know, I know. Your featherhead has been slagging in the blogging department lately. I’ve got a good excuse this time though, I swear. Shane & I have finally decided to - eeks! - buy a house. First the “wedding”, now this….I think this means I’m finally all grown up. Blecht. Banish the thought. Anyway, househunting has been consuming all my spare time, and this blog was the first to suffer. Sorry ’bout that. If you’re into animals or the environment, I still put a good day’s work in over at easyVegan.info. Which actually gets more traffic than this humble blog. So, you should check it out, is all I’m sayin.

Anywho, I just popped in to share this totally cool participatory democracy project, via the Center for Media and Democracy:

The Sunlight Foundation, the Center for Media and Democracy’s partner in Congresspedia, has been doing some really interesting participatory journalism lately. Their current project is to get citizens to rate the websites of their members of Congress for transparency and accountability. So far 294 members have been rated and, in the wake of members like Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) posting their daily schedules online, the bar is getting higher for what citizens expect. The best part is that when the results are all in, we’re going to post them on every member’s Congresspedia profile so it can become part of their permanent record.

More over at PR Watch or straight from the horse’s mouth.

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