Last night Technorati, a blog search engine, announced the winners of their first developers contest, and GovTrack scored #1 for integrating the blogosphere with the world of U.S. legislation.  Needless to say, this is a great start to 2005.

“Want to know the status of a bill on the floor of Congress, who misses the most votes, or who gets the most bills passed? GovTrack.us is like School House Rock on steroids for adults (oh, and children). Govtrack.us uses the Technorati API to show what bloggers are saying about bills as they work their way through Congress. Joshua won a $2,500 gift certificate.”