Clay Johnson
Clay is Director of Sunlight Labs. Prior joining Sunlight, Clay was one of the four founders of Blue State Digital, the progressive left's premier technology and online strategy firm. This firm, which was born out of the Howard Dean campaign, was also responsible for Barack Obama's Web presence. At Blue State Digital, Clay was responsible for developing the organization's brand and building its initial client roster. He also had a hand at building some of the company's early technical tools. Before joining Blue State, Johnson was the lead programmer for Dean for America in 2004, overseeing the development of grassroots tools like GetLocal, DeanLink and Project Commons. Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a technologist at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) where he helped to develop the company's Web syndication product. He also started the first Internet Knowledge Exchange, KnowPost.com, and worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a Venture Capital firm, but still claims that he learned the most from his first job -- as a waiter at Waffle House in Atlanta, Georgia.
Recent blog contributions from Clay Johnson
- Help Sunlight Build Our FEC Testimony June 26, 2009
- Recovery.gov Bid -- a Good Failure June 25, 2009
- Two Questions from the RFP Worth Noting June 24, 2009
- Questions and Answers about Recovery.gov June 24, 2009
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Available on Data.gov June 20, 2009
- Recovery.gov 2.0 Bid Status Report June 19, 2009
- Data.gov gets an update June 19, 2009
- WE are going to bid on Recovery.gov June 17, 2009
- The Future of Email Marketing? Twitter. June 16, 2009
- Fun with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables June 12, 2009
- Surge of EPA data in Data.gov June 12, 2009
- Where are the Government Web Developers? June 5, 2009
- New Data on Data.gov June 2, 2009
- Us: Transparency, Them: Collaboration June 1, 2009
- The Open Government Brainstorm May 29, 2009
- What I'd Change about Data.gov May 28, 2009
- Keeping an Eye on Data.gov May 22, 2009
- Everything We Know About Data.gov May 22, 2009
- Announcing Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge May 21, 2009
- Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge May 21, 2009
- 2 Easy Wins for your Congressional Website May 13, 2009
- My Talk at Web2.0 Expo May 12, 2009
- Word Cloud of the National Dialogue May 11, 2009
- What do people want from Recovery.gov? May 11, 2009
- On the new NYSenate.gov May 8, 2009
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Apps for America 2
The Data.gov Challenge -
Pass S.482
We Need Your Help! -
ReadTheBill.org
Demand they Read the Bill -
Real Time Investigations
Tracking Private Influences on Public Policy -
OOGL
Our Open Government List -
Apps for America
Sunlight's annual development contest! -
Sunlight Labs
Making government data usable is hard work! -
Transparency Timeline
A History of Congressional Public Access Reform. -
Capitol Words
Taking Congress at its Word. -
2009 Tariff Suspensions
See Who’s Seeking Tax Breaks on Imports from Congress -
Transparency Jobs
Bringing Transparency to Government, One Job at a Time -
Capitol Tweets
Keep up on the latest tweets from members of Congress who use Twitter. -
The Open Senate Project
A bipartisan, collaborative initiative to study the Senate's current information-sharing practices -
FARAdb
A proof of concept site based on Foreign Agent Registration Act data -
Party Time!
Documenting the Political Partying Circuit. -
Public Markup
An experiment to open bills to online, public review. -
EarmarkWatch
Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending. -
Visualizing Earmarks
Select Visualizations of 2005 OMB Earmark Data. -
Where Are They Now?
Former Congressional Staffers head through the Revolving Door
