Bouldin has already linked to it, but I want to put in a special word for the TAPopedia. The folks over at the Albany Project have come up with such a good idea here, but the whole point is that it needs input from all of us.
Let's face it: there's woefully little out there in the way of systematic explanation of how Albany works and who its players are. TAPopedia gives us the opportunity to use open-source knowledge to explore every nut and bolt in the sausage factory, and to track every single legislator down to the most obscure freshman Assemblymember. Since so much of Albany's dysfunction results from its opacity, a tool like TAPopedia holds a lot of promise in the struggle to achieve transparency.
But it needs you! What do you know? Go and build!
