Re: job: make government data accessible and useful

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Mar 8, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > It's an open space.  A few people have done the political junk (e.g.,
> > the CNET dude)
>
> Do you mean MAPLight?

No.  He's a little slick for my taste, but seems to be doing useful  
things.

I meant this train wreck:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/09/cnet-founder-shelby-bonnie-unveils-his-new-startup-politicalbase/

But, the basic point was that the scope is about 200m pages of stuff,  
and if you can make it searchable, cross-link it, etc.., etc.. there  
is a $10b/year revenue opportunity, particularly if you can figure out  
how to lay it into the enterprise workflow stuff.