http://napkin.highgroove.com/ en-us 40 The Napkin ~ A Blog By Highgroove Studios comments <p><a href="http://www.propublica.org">ProPublica</a> is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.</p> <p>Yesterday, <span class="caps">NPR</span>&#8217;s Marketplace aired a segment featuring their &#8220;<a href="http://bailout.propublica.org">Eye on the Bailout</a>&#8221;&#8212;a Ruby on Rails application to track the $1.1 trillion taxpayer-funded bailout. Behind this Rails app is a one smart development and investigative team. The app is fully <span class="caps">RES</span>Tful (allowing developers to pull and syndicate bailout related data in several formats), and it also pulls in feeds from several different news sources.</p> <p><a href="http://highgroove.com">Highgroove</a> was all too eager to help, but the real credit goes out to the amazing development team, led by Dan Nguyen and Scott Klein.</p> <p>Read the segment on <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/15/pm_bailout/">Marketplace</a>.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://bailout.propublica.org">Eye on the Bailout</a></p> Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:05:00 EST <a href="/articles/2009/04/16/propublica-launches-eye-on-the-bailout">ProPublica Launches Eye on the Bailout</a> <a href="/articles/2009/04/16/propublica-launches-eye-on-the-bailout">ProPublica Launches Eye on the Bailout</a>