GeekPAC

For the last couple of months, I’ve had the idea that there should be a place where interested persons can find info on what politicians and candidates have received donations from the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft’s anti-ODF works, etc. I figure bytesfree.org is as good a place as any.

Fortunately, the data is out there and publicly accessible, but there are all sorts of challenges - the info is uneven, in disparate locations, and (perhaps ironically) in a variety of difficult-to-import formats. The long and short of it is that it’s a lot of grunt work: copying, pasting, massaging, and my personal favorite: data entry.

But keep your eye out for the BytesFree.org Voter Information Project - it will only get better from here.