Reply to Public Knowledge over House database bill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Fred has a point. It's just a design oversight, of course, but one that 
unfortunately limits the web site's usefulness. Paging Jakob Nielsen... --Declan]


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] Public Knowlege urges action to oppose House database 
bill [ip]
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:39:31 -0800
From: Fred Heutte <phred () sunlightdata com>
To: <declan () well com>

Can't Public Knowledge do better than this?

(1) The basic info on the bill appears to require "joining"
rather than simply allowing the reader to view the background
material.

(2) The "news of the day" item about Hill action on the bill
is actually a pointer to a protected-site National Journal
news article.  I have no objection to that (I actually subscribe
to CQ Daily), but it strikes me as disingenuous that a group
promoting open access to info makes it so hard for the first-time
user.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/content/news/news-nj-2004-2-26

Fred


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