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Back when the United States was born, people who needed to do research would sometimes ride a horse for days to get to the nearest library. Today, the U.S. Library of Congress made its THOMAS website for information about legislative activity...
When Jen Pahlka from Code for America (Tim O'Reilly's right hand at the time) came to meet with our CEO, Jean Case, and me, Jean literally could not stay seated because she was so excited about the possibilities of this new effort. Seriously, she...