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Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest. Datamasher.org provides the public with a simple interface to mash up government datasets to analyze and visual

This video about the challenges of Gov 2.0 is informative and entertaining. Peter Swire of the Center for American Progress (and lawyer during the Obama transition) narrates.

Virtually overnight, sites like ThisWeKnow.com and Datamasher.org created sites that parse this data into a true information grid where you can find out things like how states compare on virtually any criterion.