TOP Political Content Websites in US/News

Case study:

occupy Eugene facebook

sunlight foundation

TOP political content websites in US/news

News:

Yahoo! 4

MSN 13

CNN.com 16

Huffington Post 22

Nytimes.com 31

FoxNews.com 41

Washington Post 62

Drudge Report 75

USA Today 77

The Daily Mail 79

Wall Street Journal 81

Los Angeles Times 92

Government:

whitehouse.gov 993

usa.gov 2124

grants.gov 7065

medicare.gov 3319

State.gov 760

un.org 4923

fao.org 17647

oecd.org 23929

imf.org 17519

globalsecurtiy.org 11937

federalreserve.gov 7709

irs.gov 119

census.gov 1356

sec.gov 1715

Politics:

Slate.com 337

newsmax.com 285

infrowars.com 512

salon.com 607

dailykos.com 833

townhall.com 825

worldnetdaily.com 669

gallup.com 1755

Activism:

Facebook 2

Freerepublic 984

newsbusters 1979

The petition site 3468

occupywallst.org 7427

democracynow.org 6293

gopetition.com 27391

Ipetitions.com 14164

Globalvoicesonline.org 28658

credocation.com 2951

Page view comparisons of whitehouse.gov to political news websites:

Top Ten Government websites in the US compared to other political categories in terms of their rank in overall views in America:

Political websites, but not the government's websites themselves, receive views/attention. Activism sites have the lowest views. There is room for improvement for the Government's website view count- which could increase communication to voters.

Looking at the Top 50 websites in America:

The top 50 websites in America grouped in the categories of shopping, social, and searching involve interaction with the user, either as a marketplace or as a forum to communicate.

My project idea is to make a blueprint for a social website that integrates politicians, bills, and political ideas with the public in order to further transparency of the government and allow greater communication with voters.

I propose this website to emulate the successful models of social media sites such as digg.com, reddit.com, and youtube.com which allows a voting and "point" system for registered user's contribution. The system of Wikipedia is also suggested to be implemented involving the use of moderators and editing.

Methods to increase transparency-

Politicians will have a track record of bills they voted for

Incorporation of information from sunlightfoundation.org

-daily activities etc.

Methods to increase voter communication/education:

Bills will be displayed

-summaries of wordy language can be voted upon

-opponents and supporters of bills are shown (congress)

Instant emailing to your congressmen

-signing in allows instant emails to be sent- sample letters can be made

Bills can be debated and then voted upon

Ability to draft Bills and find public backing to have a rep. introduce it into congress

Bills can be listed by topic

Graphics of information of budget can be easily accessed

footnotes are made clear

News stories are also voted and discussed

A government website

Government presence/representation on the itnernet via website which increases its popularity will lead to a stronger democracy, allowing better communication to voters, greater transparency which ultimatley allows for more accurate reprsentation.

ability to have accounts

ability to verify accounts- each congressmen has an account

voting/point system

legislature/bills are fully shown to the public-

-users get points for paraphrasing the bills most accurately

- concerns are listed and voted upon

-each congressman's account will represent which laws they support

integration with face book and twitter.

the ability to edit and write bills which can also be voted upon- editing words with justification.

front page with newest news- home pages in terms of your representatives and senators- see their feed.

also a news section

petitions

users can support bills

bill's name can be decided on?

interactive status on bills, votes, and dates.

congressmen

public websites, like public parks

SOPA PIPA

transparency

legislators have 2-3 policy people

idea is to get more people, the public, with greater involvement

write websites-

direct democracy-

transparency-

sunlight foundation-

increase transparency-

by state,

by bill

Top 50 websites in US:

1- Google - search

2-Facebook- social

3-youtube- social

4-yahoo- search

5-amazon- shop

6-Wikipedia- information

7-eBay-shop

8-twitter- social

9-Craigslist- shop

10-linkedIn-social

11-blogspot- social

12- windows live- search

13-msn- search, news shop

14- go- search

15- Bing- search

16- cnn- news

17- paypal- shop

18- AOL- search

19- espn-entertainment

20-wordpress-shop

21-netflix- entertainment

22-pinterest-social

23-huffington post-news

24-tumblr- social

25-twitter-social

26-imdb- entertainment

27-Bank of america- shop

28- apple- shop

29- weather- news

30-sedo- shop

31-NYT- news

32-chasebank-shop

33-microsoft-shop

34-about- search

35-imgur-social

36-flickr- social

37-wells fargo- shop

38-ask- search

39-optmd-news

40-comcast- shop

41-foxnews- news

42-godaddy-shop

43-yelp-search

44-walmart-shop

45-object- search

46-google user content-search

47-Hulu- entertainment

48-blogger-social

49-etsy- shop

50-reddit- social

entertainment 4/50

social- 12/50

search- 10/50

shop- 16/50

news-7/50

information- 1/50