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Envisioning a Firefox Extension for Political Transparency (With Mockups!)
This post is based on a proposal I created for MAPLight.org in early April '08. The mockups are also dated to that time.
Firefox extensions have a huge, largely untapped potential for social change. By changing the way we interact with the web, a browser extension can highlight issues, expose relationships, and raise awareness as people browse the web. More specifically, a Firefox extension could help illuminate the connection between money and politics when and where that connection is often most needed -- when people search for and visit legislators' websites.
