Scout, a notification system for gov, enters open beta

[Tyler Dukes]

Sunlight Labs just moved an interesting tool into public beta. It's called Scout, and it's a custom alert system to notify users about activity in state and federal government. Here's more from Sunlight's Eric Mill:

Scout is an alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.
You can set up notifications for new things that match keyword searches. Or, if you find a particular bill you want to keep up with, we can notify you whenever anything interesting happens to it -- or is about to.

It's open-source and can also send notifications via email, SMS, RSS or JSON, so it could integrate well into other projects.