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What is Redcaster?Semantic Web The 'Semantic Web' is the concept the Internet is more than just a collection of documents with words in them.  The development of the semantic web consists of efforts to 'understand' what the content is about, and to link it together with related documents. Automatic Categorisation Redcaster provides a system which can automatically identify the higher-level 'meta' categories that the article discusses. Redcaster currently offers two distinct categorisation services: Article categories For instance, an article about Barack Obama and the annual state of the nation address would return the categories 'United States', 'Politics', 'Government'.  These categories do not need to be specifically mentioned in the article for them to be identified.Related categories Redcaster can suggest categories which are closely related to the category in question.  For instance, 'Politics' returns 'United States', 'United Kingdom', 'Government' and more.Learning System Redcaster is not a static knowledge base.  It is a learning system capable of recognising new topics and concepts.  If a new subject or person enters the lexicon, then over time this will become a category which Redcaster will start tagging articles with. Free access Redcaster offers a free account and an easy-to-use interface for news publishers to access.  With this account, publishers can submit either their content directly, or links to published articles.

"KTC" is a bookmarklet that displays an abundance of political and biographical information about current members of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Welcome to the new & improved World Buddy- the most efficient way to view: 1. The current time in any of the world's time zones. Daylight savings time is included in the conversion when appropriate, and the zones are kept abreast of political changes. 2. The current & past 24 hours of weather at thousands of locations around the world.

Imagine you distribute PDFs of political pamphlets. Usenet is a superior method for sending and receiving them than Bit-torrent or file-lockers. Your ISP and the government can't do deep packet inspection on your Internet connection to see what you are doing: Usenet providers use SSL encryption but you'd need to pay for a VPN service to be protected if you use torrents or File-lockers.

Act.ly is a suite of activism tools designed to take full advantage of Twitter. Things happen fast on Twitter, a petition can come out of nowhere and catch fire in a few minutes, so the ability to easily scale up and scale down is crucial.

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Failure to effectively reach members of Congress has disastrous consequences. Studies show that politicians fundamentally misconceive their constituents' views, making it harder for them to represent us in the lawmaking process. That's why we built Democracy.io: a new tool to put you in touch with your members of Congress-with as few clicks as possible.