A PACK, NOT A HERD: GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AWARENESS IS A NEW SITE put together by MIT folks who are putting David Brin’s “Transparent Society” into action:

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Its creators hope it will become a Google of government, a massive Internet clearinghouse of information to help citizens track their leaders as effectively as their leaders track them.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab plans to debut a Web site today called Government Information Awareness .

GIA hopes to create an enormous but self-sustaining community where users do the work of keeping it running and credible.

Sounds good to me. Here’s a direct link to the site.