Paul Blumenthal uses Ted Stevens' fall from grace to examine the revolving door that is created by congressional staffers moving to K Street to lobby on behalf of a lawmaker's pet projects.

Ellen Miller highlights some of the recent upgrades over at GovTrack.us, especially the bill text view that Sunlight Foundation helped fund.

Paul Blumenthal explores the New York Times' latest interactive online tool that allows a user to type in their address and receive a plethora of political information about their representatives from the city council all the way up to the U.S. Senate. The tool, aptly named Represent maybe a harbinger  for future information integration from traditional news organizations.

Ellen Miller takes a moment to shed some light on the history of the Inspector General system and what can be done to improve the crucial department, transparency style.

Nisha Thompson suggest taking website updating solely out of the hands of the IT staff and let local government employees update local city sites themselves. Boston's Web Portal did just that, providing software to city employees to update the city website as they see fit. The result: Increased traffic to the site.