Here are articles on GovTrack in the press, mentions of GovTrack in articles about government transparency, other reviews and related press releases.
9/28/2009. LA Times: These crusaders bring transparency to government, by Michael Hiltzik
9/9/2009. Orlando Sentinel: Alan Grayson: Is he one of Congress' top "leaders"?. Debate on the leader-follower score.
8/26/2009. Government Computer News: Apps for America 2 finalists announced, by Joab Jackson.
6/1/2009. Government Computer News: Ready for reuse? by Joab Jackson.
5/11/2009. Columbia Journalism Review: Senate goes XML, by Clint Hendler
5/6/2009. Politico: Senate picks up the slack on data, by Victoria McGrane. (Again, no mention of GovTrack, but I count this as a bit of a personal victory.)
5/4/2009. O'Reilly Broadcast: Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 - 2009 [Part 1], by Andrew Odewahn.
5/1/2009. Politico: Group wants Senate to get 'techy', by Victoria McGrane. (It doesn't mention GovTrack, but I was involved behind the scenes.)
5/9/2009. Examiner.com: Online democracy, by Alexandra de Scheel
4/30/2009. Government Computer News: Remixing government data by Joab Jackson.
4/27/2009. Politico: Online voting records user unfriendly, by Victoria McGrane
3/5/2009. Mother Jones: Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?, by Jonathan Stein
3/3/2009. TechNewsWorld: How to Use the Web to Track Government Goings-On, by Erika Morphy.
2/28/2009. Newsweek: The People's Data: Government should make data openly available and then let outside talent reimagine how it can be used online, by Christopher Werth.
1/10/2009. Miller-McCune: Deep Throat Meets Data Mining: In the nick of time, the digital revolution comes to democracy's rescue. And, perhaps, journalism's, by John Mecklin.
January 2009. The Atlantic: iGov: How geeks are opening up government on the Web, by Douglas McGray.
7/24/2008. linux.com: GovTrack opens up information on US legislature, by Tina Gasperson.
7/21/2008. IT Conversations: Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators
7/16/2008. Princeton Alumni Weekly: Data Crusader: Josh Tauberer '04 is someone a policy wonk could love, by Brett Tomlinson.
7/3/2008. SemanticWeb.com: The Semantic Web and The Democratic Tradition, by Jennifer Zaino
7/3/2008. ZDNet: Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4, by Mitch Ratcliffe
6/30/2008. TIME (just online?): The Citizen Watchdogs of Web 2.0, by Jeremy Caplan
6/3/2008. Ars Technica: Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns, by Timothy B. Lee
June 2008. Robinson, David, Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P and Felten, Edward W, "Government Data and the Invisible Hand" (2008). Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008
1/23/2008. National Journal: Technology Daily:Lawmakers favor outside access to legislative data, by Aliya Sternstein
8/9/2007. Sunlight Foundation: Insanely Useful Websites (by John Wonderlich and Paul Blumenthal, with an audio-intro by GovTrack's Josh Tauberer)
3/2007. Searcher: Mashups, Blogs, Wikis Go Federal (subscribers only) (by Laura Gordon-Murnane)
2/13/2007. The American (online): Legislators Should Live in a Glass House (by GovTrack's creator Josh Tauberer)
2/9/2007. Sunlight Foundation Announces Open House Project
5/9/2006. Webby Award 2006 Nominee - Politics
5/6/2006. Voice of America: Our World: Web Site of the Week
4/3/2006. The Daily Pennsylvanian: Grad student's site helps track new laws (by Katie Vasserman)
2/21/2005. Accounting Today: "Government Resources"
1/13/2005: The Guardian (London): "Life: online: Blog Watch: Bill of progress"
GovTrack's network of influence
GovTrack can also take some credit in the successes of the websites based in part on data sourced from GovTrack, like MAPLight.org.
GovTrack was a source in...
Column by Rep. Chris Smith in The Times of Trenton, June 30, 2008
Fallibility, Wise Men and Politics, The New York Times, May 20, 2008
On the Road Again, NYTimes Caucus blog
