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  1. What laws went into effect today that you need to know about? The Department of Legislative Services is on the case. http://is.gd/1l4dW
  2. New feature: The avg. partisanship of bill copatrons charted on bills, to show if it's Rep. or Dem. leaning. i.e. http://is.gd/114fY
  3. New feature: Partisanship rankings using cosponsoring-based social networking metrics. It's really cool! http://is.gd/Qt3M http://is.gd/Qt4n
  4. YouTube can't handle long video, Google Video is shutting down. After lots of prep work, we're switching to Vimeo. http://is.gd/wcBe
  5. Session might be over, but things are still busy here. There's still hours and hours of video to encode and new analysis features to create.
  6. New feature: Tag clouds for every day's session, by chamber. Here's the House and Senate, for Friday: http://is.gd/hY10 http://is.gd/hY0X
  7. A new feature in beta: Daily legislative calendars. http://is.gd/htFU
  8. An uncommon perspective on the House: Del. Brink filmed the members of the chamber reacting to today's inauguration. http://is.gd/gDLJ
  9. Because sometimes you don't care about the bill number or the chamber it was filed in: Browse bills by topic. http://is.gd/giwI
  10. Photosynthesis now has Ajax-based comment editing. Let everybody know where you stand and why—comment on those bills! http://is.gd/geMs
  11. The average visit to RS this week has been 5:30 in length, an eon for a website. Most visit are from Richmond, Charlottesville a distant #2.
  12. House Republicans agreed last week to provide video of sessions. We'll incorporate it into our site fully, naturally. http://is.gd/fCR7
  13. At long last, our horrible site design has been jettisoned for a proper one (courtesy of @boboroshi), and it looks far, far better.
  14. A beta feature: Richmond Sunlight for the iPhone and other mobile devices. http://m.richmondsunlight.com/
  15. We're calculating the most interesting bills in real time, based on page views, votes, comments, and Photosynthesis adds. http://is.gd/dHu0
  16. Moved RS to a dedicated server today, paid for 100% by Blue Ridge Internetworks. Everything is much faster now. http://www.briworks.com/
  17. New, not-yet-documented XML API goodness: List tags for a given year http://is.gd/9yQF and list bills with a given tag http://is.gd/9yRk
  18. Obsess much? Watch the bills come rolling in, as they're filed, updated hourly. http://is.gd/7gtxle
  19. Each delegate's top contributors are now listed, courtesy of FollowTheMoney.org. (I feel like we're cheating on VPAP.) http://is.gd/6YAc
  20. Automatic, custom recommendations of bills you've never seen that you'll probably find interesting. It's kind of magic. http://is.gd/6PoZ