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Capitol website should keep pace with transparency innovations

I've said before the Texas Legislature's web presence is an extraordinary boon to democratic input, allowing average citizens to access hearing videos and bill records from outside Austin and giving the public nearly the level of tracking tools available to the professional lobby.But technology changes quickly and what was cutting edge two years ago today frequently seems rather pedestrian today, and so it is for me with the Texas capitol website (www.capitol.state.tx.us).Lately I've been working on a project related to City of Austin water rates, and have had the opportunity to extensively use the "on demand" functions for retrieving and viewing council meeting video and materials related to the agenda. The system really is quite extraordinary and in particular provides two tools that make public policy research a lot simpler: Basic backup materials are posted online for each agenda item and video may be accessed item by item so you don't have to fast-forward through hours of unrelated material searching for the item you need...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 13, 2010 (boomark / email).