How GitHub Helps You Hack the Government (wired.com)

I really hope to see the similar movement in academia world. One day supplementary information (SI) will be published as gists... the day will come!

There is a persistent effort to equate "open government" not with transparency of process, but with "open" data, APIs, and so on. The term "semantic government" is not nearly as sexy, but just as ineffectual.

Likewise, the article uses the watered-down definition of "hacking", which no longer means "hack mils" but rather "hack the coffeemaker".