Waldo has put together a personalized bill tracking system for Richmond Sunlight called Photosynthesis. I just went over and put in all of the bills I mentioned in my legislative agenda series. You can see my list here.
Way cool, Waldo. Way cool 
Oh – and you can follow your bills in your favorite RSS reader, too.
Thanks, Vivian! I hope to put together some tools to make it easy to automagically list those bills in the sidebar of a blog — like “My Legislative Agenda,” in your sidebar now. I’m glad you signed up.
Posted by Waldo Jaquith | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 12:18 amI tried using the RSS feed in my sidebar but it was TMI
Looking forward to the tools 
In the meantime, you gave me an idea: I’ve added a link to my portfolio in the sidebar.
Posted by vjp | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 12:22 amWaldo is doing some terrific work for the citizens fo Virginia. I’ve never met Walso but hopefully will have the pleasure one day.
buzz…buzz…
Posted by mosquito | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 3:55 amYes, outstanding work here Waldo! I too plan to put a list on the sidebar at VB Dems.
Not to add to your list of to-do’s, but you need a square Richmond Sunlight button. I’ll take a stab at it if you’d like. Thanks again!
Posted by eileen | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 8:59 ammosquito – every time you post, your comments are ending up in my spam filter. Not sure what the problem is but perhaps you want to give a shot at logging in to your WordPress account first?
Posted by vjp | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 11:14 amSorry about the TMI, Vivian.
I’m not sure of how to best go about striking the balance between enough information to be useful to people (who may not understand what they’re looking at otherwise) but little enough that it doesn’t use up an entire sidebar. 
I think I’m going to output the entire contents of each portfolio, but give subscribers the option to scale back how much information is provided. But how to best do that, I’m not sure…
Posted by Waldo Jaquith | Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 1:22 pm