I'm caught up on most magazines, including The Economist, but I'm still on last month's Atlantic. It had an article, iGov that's the best explanation for the layman I've seen for how government websites might be improving a lot.
"Federal agencies have been online since the mid-’90s. Obama’s first crack at a Google-for-government law led to USAspending.gov, a budget tracker that looked like everything else the feds had put up on the Web—until I saw one geek-speak phrase on the home page, so small I almost missed it: API Documentation. To understand its significance, let me tell you how I got subway schedules on my iPhone."
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