links for 2007-05-29

Kari Chisholm offers this: "Governing Magazine has a great discussion of the role that blogs are playing during the Texas legislative session"

Jeff Clavier reports on a company he holds an investment in: A few days ago, Truveo went quietly out of stealth. It did not get noticed immediately because of two major news “sandwiching” its release: Skype/eBay and Google BlogSearch. However the buzz has been growing since then, and the initial feedback is pretty positive. Yes,…

 Here’s what caught my attention at Day 2 of DEMOfall 05:   EasyReach – a service to make documents available to you easily no matter whether you’re using your desktop, laptop or PDA Destinator – enables GPS phones to turn search results into spoken map directions to help you drive somewhere TalkPlus – a cell…

PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.

An interesting article in the Washington Post identifies a growing issue for the interesection of technology and advocacy: email overload in Congress. If you think you’re swamped by Internet spam, pity the poor Congress. According to a new study, electronic messages to the House of Representatives doubled to 99 million from 2000 to 2004. In…