Lark Birdsong's List: Government

This bibliography includes the most recent statistical abstracts for states published since 2000, plus those that will be issued in late 2009. For some states, a near equivalent has been listed in substitution for, or in addition to, a statistical abstract. All sources contain statistical tables on a variety of subjects for the state as a whole, its component parts, or both. Internet sites also contain statistical data.

The Abstract is also your guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.

Guide to Sources
Federal Agency Statistical Reports
State Abstracts

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"Changing with DotGov\nPeggy Garvin\nAIIP 2010, Cleveland OH\n\n \n\nWeb Addresses\n\nOpen Data\n\n\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/open/\nLinks to other /open's: http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around/\n\nhttp://resource.org/8_principles.html\n\nTim Berner-Lee's TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html\n\nDefinition of "data": http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/\n\nhttp://www.data.gov/\nhttp://data.gov.uk/\nUnofficial: http://datadotgc.ca\n\nWashington, DC: http://data.octo.dc.gov/\nSan Francisco: http://datasf.org/\nVancouver, BC: http://data.vancouver.ca/\n\nUnofficial compilations:\nhttp://nationaldatacatalog.com (beta)\nhttp://CKAN.net/ and developing http://opendatacatalog.org/\nhttp://openmuni.org\n\nThe Guardian's Data Store: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store/\nNY Times "Open" blog: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/\n\nhttp://USAspending.gov/\n"Following the Money" report on states' spending data sites: http://www.uspirg.org/report (in Tax & Budget Policy archive)\n\nhttp://recovery.gov/\nLinks to state recovery sites: http://www.recovery.gov/FAQ/QuickLinks/Pages/QuickLinks.aspx\nProPublica Eye on the Stimulus: http://www.propublica.org/ion/stimulus\n\nhttp://transparencydata.com/ (beta, state and federal campaign finance data)\n\n\nSocial Media, etc.\n\nhttp://govtwit.com/\nhttp://tweetcongress.org/\nFacebook and Government: http://www.facebook.com/government (see "Govt Pages" tab)\n\nLibrary of Congress on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/\n\nYouTube US Government Channel: http://www.youtube.com/USGovernment\n\nDirectories of govt blogs, dialogues, etc.: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Multimedia.shtml#Connect_with_Government\nData.gov dialogue: http://datagov.ideascale.com/\n\nRegulations.gov: http://regulations.gov/\nNew & Free Regulations Trackers: http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain45.htm\n\nMobile MedlinePlus.gov: http://m.medlineplus.gov/\n\nhttp://DocumentCloud.org/ (shared resource for news services)\n\nhttp://www.fdsys.gov\nGP

Copyright issues underlie practically every item we read, view, or listen to. Copyright protection vests automatically in both unpublished and published original works of authorship when fixed in a discernable format. No notice or action on the part of the author is required. It’s literally just there! With some exceptions (17 USC § 107- §122; http://uscode.house.gov), the law grants authors exclusive control for a limited time over the use of their works. This “bundle of five rights” includes the right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform, and display a work.

"Welcome to FedFlix, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever."

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"With so much government data to work with, developers are creating a wide variety of applications, mashups, and visualizations. From crime statistics by neighborhood to the best towns to find a job to seeing the environmental health of your community–these applications arm citizens with the information they need to make decisions every day. Enjoy these highlights of the hundreds of applications available"

"Eighteen months ago, data.gov was born, with the release of 47 government data sets of information. Today, there are more than 250,000 data sets and hundreds of applications that use them. New data sets are being made available every week, and localities like San Francisco, New York City, the State of California, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have launched web sites. Countries such as Canada, Australia, and the U.K are also releasing their data. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world worldwide web, is behind the U.K. effort. And legendary publisher Tim O’Reilly is championing a new movement, called Gov 2.0, to maintain the momentum of change.

With the data they obtained, Mike and Ryan were able to create a web site that allows consumers to learn how their retirement plans compare with others. Some retirement plans charge more than 4% a year in fees. How is anyone going to get to retirement paying 4% a year in fees? The BrightScope tools allow consumers—and employers—to easily learn when they are getting ripped off and quickly determine that a change needs to be made. The company is growing rapidly: last year it booked $100K in revenue; this year it expects to net $3 million and achieve profitability; next year it expects to hit the $10 million mark.

The opportunities aren’t just in mining financial data. Sonpreet Bhatia launched My City Way—a mobile applications platform, available in 30 cities around the world, that provides information on things like public restrooms, transit, traffic, tourist attractions, and restaurants. This is based on data provided by the local governments. So when you’re traveling to San Francisco and need to know what BART train to catch or the latest restaurant-inspection results, you can look up San Francisco Way App on your iPhone. If you hate the NYC traffic situation, check out live traffic cameras or find a good parking spot using NYC Way App. Other city-based applications provide everything from volunteer opportunities to lookup of information on traffic-ticket and bil