Last week I added a new feature to GovTrack called Community Q&A. It was inspired by a question I received by mail (the subject of my last blog post). If one person that has a question actually took the time to email, then there must be hundreds of other questions you all have but haven’t asked. Read it all..
December 21, 2007
See you on the flip side of winter recess
Congress is on break until mid January, so we’ll be going into a bit of hibernation here at GovTrack. Check back when Congress resumes mid January for the new GovTrack Community Blog, legislative analysis written by and for the users of this site.
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for some news on congressional transparency, open data, and related issues.
November 27, 2007
Second Call for Bloggers
I received a few encouraging replies to an earlier post about you blogging here
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October 28, 2007
Want to blog here?
It just occurred to me that with some 500 people per day viewing GovTrack’s homepage, and since I don’t post site news all that often, maybe others would like to join me and blog legislation-related news and information (like I used to do in 2006) on the front page of the site? If you’re interested, drop me an email at the address at the bottom of the site.
October 23, 2007
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October 22, 2007
Downloadable/Printable District Maps
Just added a new feature: high-resolution district maps that can be downloaded (and printed), with no unreasonable copyright restrictions. To get the maps, find the district map, as on this page
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which is (incredibly) made available with the only restriction that if you copy the map, you provide credit back to them. Since we add the district outline overlay here, to copy these maps you have to credit both GovTrack and TOPP.
August 23, 2007
Video link
Someone makes a video praising GovTrack. 
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Site status
GovTrack has moved over to its new hardware so things should be working normally again. More or less.
August 9, 2007
Sunlight review of GovTrack
Sunlight has posted a really nice review of GovTrack. If you’re not sure how to start using this site, the review highlights one path.
August 8, 2007
Site outages and status
If you’ve used GovTrack at all lately, you’ve probably noticed the chronic outages that have grown considerably worse over the last few months as traffic has increased (with some 8,000 people visiting daily now). There have been a few independent problems. One was a software bug (it wasn’t my fault!) that I believe I fixed today, and so the outages should pretty much clear up. Another issue was that the machine running this site simply couldn’t keep up with all of the new traffic, and so today I’ve bought a newer and faster server. Over the next few weeks I’ll move the site to its new home, and hopefully you won’t notice the change, except that everything will hopefully be speedier by the time Congress returns from its summer break.
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