Kevin: The Sunlight Foundation, which as Marshall Kirkpatrick says in one of the coolest geek organisations on the internet, announced that it has received $4m from the Omidyar Foundation, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's grouop. Sunlight is the MySociety of the US, both brilliant groups that take public information and actually make useful websites and services out of it.

Kevin: The Washington Post announces its Obama Appointment tracker. It quickly shows how many positions still need to be filled as of mid-March. From other delicious.com users, it looks like this is built in Django.