Adam Hanft

Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.

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Journalist and co-author of Dictionary of the Future

I love the instant wonkage that the web makes possible. Case in point: ReadTheStimulus.org: transparency manna for every stimulus fetishist. As their site coyly puts it "$850 Billion, 1588 pages, and counting… somebody needs to read it.” You can search the entire magnanimous-opus. View every draft of the bill, plus amendments, plus the CBO report. What's more, if you discover something objectionable on page 1492, you can add your own comments, and see the marginalia of other obsessives. And bloggers can link directly to any individual page. Disclosure: The site's partners are from the red frequency spectrum—the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Club for Growth and so on. But hey, I’m fine with the vast right-wing conspiracy doing constructive work like this. Next: how about a similar site for Dick Cheney's visitor log book.

12:01 pm, Feb 18, 2009

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