Friday LOG Links - March 2nd with Bonus Videos!
It doesn’t look good for the Washington Sunshine Committee to get a dawn surprise from the State Legislature as the session wraps up today. Maybe next year the light’s shinin’ through; they’ve been waiting so long. [Seattle Times]
Paper on “The New Ambiguity of Open Government” questions whether burying citizens in downloadable data through open data initiatives “may placate the public’s appetite for transparency by providing less nourishing substitutes.” We may have seen this argument before: Less filling? Tastes great! [Fierce Government IT]
An Australian government struggles to manage records and fulfill requests of adoptees and former orphans from nearly 50 miles worth of boxes. [Image and Data Manager]
Irony-challenged Georgia legislators ban recording of their meeting before approving new open government laws. Or rabble-rousing reporters conflate two quasi-related topics to make for fun headlines. There’s no winners here. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
In not particularly shocking news, spies are sneaky: the CIA jacks up review costs for classified documents without public comment or notice. [National Security Archive at GWU]
