 A few favorite quotes: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to Tortoise (in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter) "If the crib's on fire you don't speculate the baby's flame retardant." - Al Gore on global warming "Strike up the klezmer and start acting like a man. You're about to have a truth-mitzvah." - Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report | Trying to contact me? Email me at
. Please don't go fishing for a phone number! "Civic hacking" is creative use of technology to innovate our civic lives, especially our participation in government. I'm a software developer, entrepreneur, and civic hacker based in Washington, DC. In particular, I am... CTO and co-founder of POPVOX, a startup which launched in fall 2010 to bridge the gap between the information the public wants to provide and what Members of Congress want and need to receive. Proprietor of Civic Impulse, LLC out of which I run GovTrack.us an open-source website that tracks what is happening in the U.S. CongressGovTrack Insider.com, GovTrack's reporting arm-->. Author of the in-progress self-published book Open Government Data: The Book, at opengovdata.io. "Developer at Large" for LARSA, Inc., which is a structural engineering software company in New York. Engineers use it to make sure bridges won't fall down. Let's see... I'm a locavore and I once wanted to be a FBI profiler. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where I studied linguistics, and I am published in Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (2010, O'Relly Media). Follow me @JoshData or @govtrack, read about me on Wikipedia, or see my questions/answers on stackoverflow and quora. latest blog posts
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