Re: open data success stories

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Nov 13, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> got a friend at the _Globe_ who is interested in a piece on the open
> government data movement, but wants to know if we have any good
> success stories. let me know if you have anything.

there is a lot more federal law on-line.  you can now enter a cite and  
often you get the case back.  that has changed how lawyers do their  
work dramatically.  (they can call fred von lohmann at EFF if they  
want an actual lawyer to say that to them.)

> working on getting the access details for the archive crawl.

brewster hasn't done my paperwork yet.  I'm not sure what his problem  
is.

Carl