StimulatedYet.com - A social experiment by the private sector to better spend"stimulus"dollars

The idea was transparency. If the Obama administration was spending $797 billion as stimulus money to jump-start the economy, end the recession and bring down the unemployment rate, U.S. taxpayers had a right to know where the money was going.

And so the White House started Recovery.gov, a Web site to let people do just that. But it's a work in progress. The site is now being redesigned -- for $9.5 million and, perhaps, as much as $18 million in the next five years."

The Corporate Line:

In order to accomplish the mission set out in the Recovery Act, and provide information for the public to monitor the progress of the stimulus package, Recovery.gov features:

Weekly updates of the agencies' funding notifications and financial and activity reports
Map presenting state-by-state funding
Graphs charting the weekly progress of agencies's made available and paid-out funds
Map showing the recipients of funds and the resulting projects
Written reports on the agencies' plans for where and how they'll spend the funds
Information on Federal contracts, grants and loans
A map illustrating the estimates of jobs to be created or saved and links to job information sites
Links to State Recovery sites and other government Recovery sites
Tools for the public to report for waste, fraud and abuse of recovery funds
Oversight audits by the Inspectors General of each Agency