Today is "Sunshine Sunday," the start of "
Sunshine Week" -- the annual ASNE-led campaign to highlight open-government and government-secrecy concerns. ASNE's own
Sunshine Week Blog remains rather sparse, but it does offer some student-produced
podcasts. And around the US, journalists (professional and otherwise) are seizing this opportunity.
How can you keep up with what's going on? One easy way is to subscribe to search feeds for the phrase "open government" in Google News, Yahoo News, and Technorati. (Note: those links are all to RSS feeds. Just add those URLs to your feed reader.)
Also, as I find intriguing Sunshine Week-related coverage in the mainstream media and elsewhere, I'm labeling those items in the popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us with this tag: sunshine+week. Of course, anyone can use that tag. At least one other del.icio.us user, Martin Stabe already has adopted it.
So if you use del.icio.us and follow open-government issues, please feel free to similarly tag items in your link collection. Then, collectively, you can view all items bearing the sunshine+week tag on this page.
I'm looking forward to what this week yields. As I mentioned before, this is one of my favorite news weeks of the year.
Is your news organization or venue doing anything special online for Sunshine Week? Especially coverage, discussions, or resources which go beyond editorials and straightforward reruns from your print or broadcast edition? Please e-mail me. I'd like to highlight the most innovative Sunshine Week online efforts.
