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]]> By: Tech Industry » Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-192737 Tech Industry » Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:39:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-192737 [...] There â??s a number of little tools emerging that pop up information from off-site when users hover over a link, but here â??s the coolest one Iâ??ve seen yet: Pop-up Politicians. read more | digg story [...] [...] There â??s a number of little tools emerging that pop up information from off-site when users hover over a link, but here â??s the coolest one Iâ??ve seen yet: Pop-up Politicians. read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: El equipo » Blog Archive » Congresspedia http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-117333 El equipo » Blog Archive » Congresspedia Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:10:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-117333 [...] Esta idea (va TechCrunch, aunque la haba visto ya en ms sitios) me ha gustado mucho, y creo que aporta un montn al desarrollo de un entorno transparente en poltica: Sunlight Labs ha desarrollado PopUp Politicians, un AJAX widget que, al ser instalado en una pgina, produce que al pasar el ratn por el nombre de cualquier poltico, se despliegue un pop-up con informacin sobre el poltico, un vnculo a su pgina en la Congresspedia (una iniciativa que me parece buensima), el perfil de financiacin de su campaa y el registro de sus votaciones en la cmara. El recurso tiene un valor muy interesante para peridicos y pginas de anlisis o crnica poltica de cualquier tipo. Yo aadira al widget un vnculo ms a la bsqueda en Technorati o Google del nombre del poltico, para ofrecer resultados actualizados de las andanzas y perfil meditico del representante en cuestin. [...] [...] Esta idea (va TechCrunch, aunque la haba visto ya en ms sitios) me ha gustado mucho, y creo que aporta un montn al desarrollo de un entorno transparente en poltica: Sunlight Labs ha desarrollado PopUp Politicians, un AJAX widget que, al ser instalado en una pgina, produce que al pasar el ratn por el nombre de cualquier poltico, se despliegue un pop-up con informacin sobre el poltico, un vnculo a su pgina en la Congresspedia (una iniciativa que me parece buensima), el perfil de financiacin de su campaa y el registro de sus votaciones en la cmara. El recurso tiene un valor muy interesante para peridicos y pginas de anlisis o crnica poltica de cualquier tipo. Yo aadira al widget un vnculo ms a la bsqueda en Technorati o Google del nombre del poltico, para ofrecer resultados actualizados de las andanzas y perfil meditico del representante en cuestin. [...]

]]> By: The Inveterate Observer » Blog Archive » Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114892 The Inveterate Observer » Blog Archive » Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:16:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114892 [...] There are a number of little tools emerging that pop up information from off-site when users hover over a link, but here is the coolest one I’ve seen yet: Pop-up Politicians. read more | digg story [...] [...] There are a number of little tools emerging that pop up information from off-site when users hover over a link, but here is the coolest one I’ve seen yet: Pop-up Politicians. read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Paul Medlock http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114108 Paul Medlock Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:08:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114108 In fact the more I think about it, the more grandiose the possibilities become. Examples might be: mark a food and select to see its recipe from the menu. mark a stock, get its history/price. Whatever third parties can come up with to offer. The sky is the limit. It's not a new idea either. An associate of mine here says that he worked for a dot-com that tried to sell exactly that idea a few years ago, but was unable to, and eventually folded. I don't think a firefox extension is enough to build a company on, but it would certainly be good enough for someone to write and give away. It has to be open for users adding macros, and it has to be easy to incorporate into the user's browser to fly, though. In fact the more I think about it, the more grandiose the possibilities become. Examples might be: mark a food and select to see its recipe from the menu. mark a stock, get its history/price. Whatever third parties can come up with to offer. The sky is the limit. It’s not a new idea either. An associate of mine here says that he worked for a dot-com that tried to sell exactly that idea a few years ago, but was unable to, and eventually folded. I don’t think a firefox extension is enough to build a company on, but it would certainly be good enough for someone to write and give away. It has to be open for users adding macros, and it has to be easy to incorporate into the user’s browser to fly, though.

]]> By: Paul Medlock http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114093 Paul Medlock Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:48:19 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-114093 To extend 17's suggestion, allow the user to add canned interfaces (macros) that the fireFox extension would execute using the marked text. Right-clicking on marked text would present the standard context menu listing the macros the user had added. That would open the idea up to anyone who had a category to expand on. Not just about politicians. The user is no longer at the mercy of the page author to have provided links. To extend 17’s suggestion, allow the user to add canned interfaces (macros) that the fireFox extension would execute using the marked text. Right-clicking on marked text would present the standard context menu listing the macros the user had added. That would open the idea up to anyone who had a category to expand on. Not just about politicians. The user is no longer at the mercy of the page author to have provided links.

]]> By: Sheygets Goyishekop http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113892 Sheygets Goyishekop Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:16:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113892 Seems like a Firefox extension that did this would be nice. Instead of just requiring page designers to instrument web pages that shove popups down people's throats, voters could use the extension to bring up popups like this whenever they come across a politician's name. A design like "Right-click reads name of politician (or other official) under cursor and puts up a Sunlight Pop-Up" would work for me. There are many analogous extensions that you could just copy the code from, and there's already an API. Seems like a Firefox extension that did this would be nice. Instead of just requiring page designers to instrument web pages that shove popups down people’s throats, voters could use the extension to bring up popups like this whenever they come across a politician’s name.

A design like “Right-click reads name of politician (or other official) under cursor and puts up a Sunlight Pop-Up” would work for me. There are many analogous extensions that you could just copy the code from, and there’s already an API.

]]> By: sal http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113606 sal Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:49:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113606 popups blow almost as much as political bloggers popups blow almost as much as political bloggers

]]> By: david gee http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113391 david gee Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:31:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113391 I have a tendency to overstate things, it seems. There are some interaction design problems with the widget, sure, but "really poorly implemented" is a bit insulting, on review. It's a great idea, it's the first release, and I'm sure it has a promising future. I have a tendency to overstate things, it seems. There are some interaction design problems with the widget, sure, but “really poorly implemented” is a bit insulting, on review. It’s a great idea, it’s the first release, and I’m sure it has a promising future.

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113188 Marshall Kirkpatrick Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:35:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113188 David, I agree completely. Thanks for spelling all that out. Fortunately the designers are reading this thread, so hopefully they'll take note. David, I agree completely. Thanks for spelling all that out. Fortunately the designers are reading this thread, so hopefully they’ll take note.

]]> By: david gee http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113185 david gee Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:29:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113185 I agree with bytech. I like the idea, but it's really poorly implemented. The most obvious violation of interaction design principles here is that the popup is triggered by a mouseover (therefore not requiring an explicit user action such as clicking), but requires a click (explicit user action) to be hidden. This is really the root of the problem. Personally, I think the popup causes enough change to the page (disorienting users) that it should be launched by explicitly clicking on the associated sunlight icon. However, if it absolutely needs to be launched by a rollover, rolling off the icon or popup should hide the popup. This is the expected user behavior for any kind of rollover event. If the change were to be made to an explicitly-launched popup, there is still one thing missing - when the popup is launched by clicking on the icon, an event handler should be added to the entire document so that if the user clicks anywhere outside the popup, it is hidden. Again, this is standard behavior across both web-apps and desktop applications. Click on a pulldown menu in windows then click anywhere else on the desktop: the pulldown menu disappears. Having a small "x" to close the popup just doesn't cut it. I agree with bytech. I like the idea, but it’s really poorly implemented.

The most obvious violation of interaction design principles here is that the popup is triggered by a mouseover (therefore not requiring an explicit user action such as clicking), but requires a click (explicit user action) to be hidden.

This is really the root of the problem. Personally, I think the popup causes enough change to the page (disorienting users) that it should be launched by explicitly clicking on the associated sunlight icon. However, if it absolutely needs to be launched by a rollover, rolling off the icon or popup should hide the popup. This is the expected user behavior for any kind of rollover event.

If the change were to be made to an explicitly-launched popup, there is still one thing missing - when the popup is launched by clicking on the icon, an event handler should be added to the entire document so that if the user clicks anywhere outside the popup, it is hidden. Again, this is standard behavior across both web-apps and desktop applications. Click on a pulldown menu in windows then click anywhere else on the desktop: the pulldown menu disappears. Having a small “x” to close the popup just doesn’t cut it.

]]> By: bytech http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113092 bytech Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:27:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113092 I hate pop-ups. They create a bloody mine field where I have to hold my breath so my mouse doesn't move and pop something up that covers the content I am trying reading. Blah. It's Sin #3 on my list of annoying things that webmasters are adding without limits and consideration for usability. I hate pop-ups. They create a bloody mine field where I have to hold my breath so my mouse doesn’t move and pop something up that covers the content I am trying reading. Blah. It’s Sin #3 on my list of annoying things that webmasters are adding without limits and consideration for usability.

]]> By: macewan http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113080 macewan Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:09:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113080 very cool :-) very cool :-)

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113075 Marshall Kirkpatrick Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:03:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113075 Thanks Bogger. Thanks Bogger.

]]> By: Bogger http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113073 Bogger Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:00:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113073 Boggers covering matters of US politics... Boggers covering matters of US politics…

]]> By: slim http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113071 slim Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:59:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-113071 awesome awesome

]]> By: Tom Mandel http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112962 Tom Mandel Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:24:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112962 Very cool! Very cool!

]]> By: Greg Elin http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112246 Greg Elin Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:28:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112246 Daniel, That flaw should be fixed tonight... Daniel,

That flaw should be fixed tonight…

]]> By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Pop-up Politician、アメリカ連邦議会メンバーのゴシップを広める http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112122 TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Pop-up Politician、アメリカ連邦議会メンバーのゴシップを広める Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:15:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-112122 [...] [原文へ] Pop up Politicians [...] [...] [原文へ] Pop up Politicians [...]

]]> By: Daniel http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111923 Daniel Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:00:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111923 This is amazing, exactly what web2.0 should be about. One flaw though: the specification for rel-tag at microformats (http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag) indicates that the linked page should exist. The linked page in the sunlightlabs example, (http://sunlightlabs.com/tag/Sen.+Edward+M.+Kennedy) doesn't work so this will not degrade gracefully for browsers that don't have javascript. It should be pretty easy to fix though. I hope more people pick up on this script, and kudos on them for using an Apache license to encourage uptake. Hopefully someone will make plug-ins easy to write. This is amazing, exactly what web2.0 should be about.

One flaw though: the specification for rel-tag at microformats (http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag) indicates that the linked page should exist. The linked page in the sunlightlabs example,
(http://sunlightlabs.com/tag/Sen.+Edward+M.+Kennedy) doesn’t work so this will not degrade gracefully for browsers that don’t have javascript. It should be pretty easy to fix though.

I hope more people pick up on this script, and kudos on them for using an Apache license to encourage uptake. Hopefully someone will make plug-ins easy to write.

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111900 Marshall Kirkpatrick Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:36:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111900 Telecom, that would be great. This is obviously a pretty simple system, but much of that info is held by the databases linked to here. Some way to bubble up key info automatically would be cool for sure. Telecom, that would be great. This is obviously a pretty simple system, but much of that info is held by the databases linked to here. Some way to bubble up key info automatically would be cool for sure.

]]> By: telecom rep http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111895 telecom rep Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:32:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111895 Wish list: Past or current criminal investigations, trials, and convictions. Past or current civil litigation (they sue or get sued) and outcomes. Additions to the Congressional Record of speeches they never actually gave. Ability to select key issues or legislation in one section, then see in the popups how that legislator voted on my selected issue (like net neutrality). http://www.telecommer.com Wish list:

Past or current criminal investigations, trials, and convictions.

Past or current civil litigation (they sue or get sued) and outcomes.

Additions to the Congressional Record of speeches they never actually gave.

Ability to select key issues or legislation in one section, then see in the popups how that legislator voted on my selected issue (like net neutrality).

http://www.telecommer.com

]]> By: AAM http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111875 AAM Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:51:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111875 it will be nice to see how this shapes elections in the future, having more transparency on politicians platforms and laws they passed will be valuable dynamic information for the voter. it will be nice to see how this shapes elections in the future, having more transparency on politicians platforms and laws they passed will be valuable dynamic information for the voter.

]]> By: Guk http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111851 Guk Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/pop-up-politician-dishes-dirt-on-us-congress-members/#comment-111851 This is a very good widget. Almost like the widget showing charts and so on as MarketWatch.com is doing. Very innovative. This is a very good widget. Almost like the widget showing charts and so on as MarketWatch.com is doing. Very innovative.

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