From The Hill:
Jim Harper’s twin interests in government transparency and the Internet may give lobbyists another way to influence the political process.
Harper, a former counsel to the Senate Governmental Reform Committee, developed a website in his spare time designed to make it easier for the public to track legislation.
Now his site, WashingtonWatch.com, has added a “wiki” feature to enable users to edit information on legislation before Congress. Harper said it will be the first wiki exclusively dedicated to legislation.
“The blogosphere is mostly about politics,” he said. “This is about policy.”
The idea is to make it easier for the public to learn about legislation, and in a more user-friendly and interactive way than currently offered by THOMAS, the legislative site maintained by the Library of Congress.