COPYCENSE

"Web services are poised to revolutionize the way content sites get their goods to the folks who want them.

"Joshua Tauberer is trying to render obsolete Web surfing to track congressional bills. People usually have to check out dozens of Web addresses, like the U.S. Congress site, OpenSecrets.org, and political blogs, to find out if special interests are putting money into the campaign coffers of a bill’s sponsor, read what bloggers are saying about the bill, and find out if there’s any related legislation.

"But last year Tauberer, a graduate linguistics student at the University of Pennsylvania, built GovTrack.us to automatically retrieve the latest news and blog entries related to federal legislation from hundreds of sites. Copyright law is one topic he’s particularly interested in, and he wants to help others take advantage of all the information about it floating in cyberspace. He’s doing so via a series of related software and Internet technologies people commonly call Web services."

Olga Kharif. All Your Info in One Place. BusinessWeek Online. Feb. 8, 2005.

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