The possibility of an always-on-the-record government lies not in chasing around members of congress with flip cameras but capturing their inputs, outputs and making that data accessible to ordinary citizens.
You're not going to create any good by looking over someone's shoulder and watching them constantly. You don't do it at work, neither does your boss and neither should your congressman. But what should be happening is we should be measuring their data, their outputs and coming up with systemic, non-politically-charged ways to measure performance and tracking them.
Synopsis: I'm far more interested in supplying the Nate Silver's of the world with more concrete data about Congress than I am having 24 hour video surveillance on Harry Reid.
You're not going to create any good by looking over someone's shoulder and watching them constantly. You don't do it at work, neither does your boss and neither should your congressman. But what should be happening is we should be measuring their data, their outputs and coming up with systemic, non-politically-charged ways to measure performance and tracking them.
Synopsis: I'm far more interested in supplying the Nate Silver's of the world with more concrete data about Congress than I am having 24 hour video surveillance on Harry Reid.