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  1. Big thanks to Sen. Leahy (D-VT) for the kind words about ThisWeKnow.org from the floor of the Senate: http://bit.ly/b31ox
  2. RT @jasonfried Impressed with http://www.thisweknow.org
  3. Congrats to the @datamasher team for winning Apps for America 2 contents. We enjoyed #gov2e very much!
  4. Today's the last chance to vote for http://ThisWeKnow.org in the Apps for America challenge. Please consider voting if you have not already.
  5. Well said! RT @incirclemc Data is just data when it does not have a storyline. This We Know tells some community stories from data.gov.
  6. ReadWriteWeb: 'New Semantic Web App Tames Massive Data Sets from Data.gov' http://bit.ly/2OEV5b Thanks @jolieodell
  7. Local coverage of ThisWeKnow. RT @BrattReformer Your government, online! Local techies finalists in national contest http://bit.ly/2zyGEs
  8. ThisWeKnow now includes the earmark request data @sunlightlabs released last week. eg: http://www.thisweknow.org/l...
  9. New Feature! You can now explore the top 100 lists. See, for example, the places in the country with the most toxins: http://bit.ly/4BGvif
  10. @surfdiva curious how you would see pivot tables working into the site. would you consider elaborating on what you have in mind? thanks!!
  11. @dominiccampbell Nothing wrong at all - we love you right back.
  12. @ForumOne Thanks! And congrats to you guys as well. DataMasher.org is very slick.
  13. Vote for @thisweknow! RT @sunlightlabs The Apps for America 2 Finalists have been announced. Read all about it! http://bit.ly/26f5HI
  14. govtrack data added. New factoid describing the bills about each location e.g. http://bit.ly/taJvb and http://bit.ly/4avk9c
  15. @brazenlyliberal the employment/unemployment data is at the county level which is why it's higher than you were expecting.
  16. wow, thanks micah! RT @micahbrich thisweknow.org is incredible!
  17. new this evening: "tweet this" links which allow easy sharing of facts about locations.
  18. Thank you! RT @spoon16 thisweknow.org is an interesting application of Semantic Web technology... excellent work guys! http://bit.ly/2nGke2
  19. many updates based on feedback: land areas now in miles^2, nearby communities favor larger ones, +much more. soon: lobbyist/spending data
  20. @TallTed we also reworked the "Nearby" section to favor larger municipalities + the factory/toxin data is no longer a constant 25mi radius