Saturday, January 7, 2012

Data: New in the Campaign Finance API: Independent Expenditures


New in the Campaign Finance API: Independent Expenditures

The Campaign Finance API now supports independent expenditure data.

Data: Two New Client Libraries: Times Wire and Campaign Cash


Two New Client Libraries: Times Wire and Campaign Cash

Announcing two new Ruby clients for New York Times APIs: Times Wire and Campaign Cash.

Viz: bitly in 2011

Links we clicked on in 2011. 3% of all uvem were about celebs. Actually, seems low to me. 

bitly in 2011

From Kim’s short-lived marriage to the earthquake up and down the east coast of the US, more data resonated through the social web this year than ever before.



actual real human clicks on bitly links (by day) in 2011