LinkedLegislation Blog

I was invited to answer the question above at Quora, which touches on a number of themes on this blog. It generated an interesting discussion, and I reproduce my answer here:This Venn diagram explains the most fundamental barrier:If you squint, you might be able to find a couple of intersections, but... [Read More]

I've wrapped the California Laws website in an Android application for even faster access from your mobile phone.[UPDATE: I have shut down the live CA Laws demo website; legix.info provides the internal hyperlinks that I had built into my site, and is kept up-to-date. The Android app is also not... [Read More]

You can now browse California legislation from your mobile device at calaw.tabulaw.com. This is an extension of the work, described in these posts, to parse and display California's laws for more user-friendly navigation. I implemented this as a simple web application, using mobile-targeted style sheets, not (yet) a native application.... [Read More]

This week, the U.S. government released a major update to the online version of the Tax Code. For some reason this didn't make headlines. Here, and in future posts, I will discuss why the text of the Tax Code needs to be "open sourced", and how we're approaching this challenge... [Read More]

As the Wiener scandal reminds us, Congress doesn't quite have the hang of this internet thing. So I take the liberty here to provide 5 suggestions of better things Congressmen could be doing with their access to the web and our tax dollars: DO DON'T 1. Write in Plain English... [Read More]