Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Washington's I.T. Guy: One man's quest to liberate all government information -- with or without the government's help

Washington's I.T. Guy
One man's quest to liberate all government information -- with or without the government's help

Shortly after Barack Obama's election, as progressive activists and Democratic operatives were jockeying for positions large and small within the new administration, Carl Malamud launched a quixotic campaign for an appointment as the director of the U.S. Government Printing Office. The public printer's task, historically, has been to compile and distribute to the American people the considerable amount of information produced each day by the federal government.