White House Releases Visitors List; Help Us Look Through It
n a Friday afternoon news dump, the Obama administration has released a list of nearly 500 visitors to the White House. Among the names: a host of prominent politicians who swung by to meet with the president and/or his aides....The new data is below. A challenge to the readers: sort through it and tell us what, if anything, is interesting that you find.
n a Friday afternoon news dump, the Obama administration has released a list of nearly 500 visitors to the White House. Among the names: a host of prominent politicians who swung by to meet with the president and/or his aides....The new data is below. A challenge to the readers: sort through it and tell us what, if anything, is interesting that you find.
I saw this post as well! It looked like a pretty interesting example of croudsourcing, but how much of the information they recieved was useful? I saw mention of a few people that were misnomers (non-famous people with the same name as infamous people), but no collective evaluation on the overall efficiency of the croudsourcing effort.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most interesting things to note about this attempt at transparency is the way in which the government announced the development: through a blog. The White House blog is much more formal than most of the blogs out there, but it is still remarkable to think that such a notoriously ellusive body could be so outwardly transparent through such an informal setting. I just want to applaud the government, no matter the effects of their campaign, for a symbolic aciton well-provided.