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Tuesday, July 20, 2004

TheyWorkForYou source-code online

TheyWorkForYou is the best political advocacy site I've ever seen: it scrapes the UK Parliamentary record and then turns the debates into an easily searched means of keep tabs on your MP -- and to turn your MP's deeds into the basis for discussion and political activism. A common question from Americans, Canadians and others is how this system might be adapted for their respective governments.

Well, now the TheyWorkForYou team have released the source-code for their app under the GPL, and they're also publishing raw XML feeds of their data-sources for you to mix and munge.

Get busy! Link (Thanks, Danny!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 02:25:28 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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