Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut

Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by anigbrowl on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:50PM (#2394296)

Agreed, but some of the sites are set to lose funding in a few weeks amid a febrile political atmosphere. My understanding is that the main expense areas are hosting/infrastructural overhead, developer salaries, and normal office/administrative overhead which is a fact of life in DC.

The pessimist in me thinks that keeping the inner workings of government in a state of murky obscurity furthers the interests of some more cynical politicians.

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by eli on Thursday March 31, 2011 @10:45PM (#2394726)

This is a good point, but actually most of the federal government is set to lose funding and shut down next week unless something happens in Congress.

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by thasmin on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:18AM (#2395059)

Most of the federal government has been schedule to shut down "two weeks from now" for a while.

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by tomjen3 on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:35AM (#2395094)

Again? I recall that was the issue some time ago.

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