Until now, the only way to read the 400-plus-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (otherwise known as the Stimulus Bill) has been to download a 13-megabyte PDF version or scroll through messy, unpaginated HTML versions. But now Tizra, the Providence, RI online publishing company we profiled in February, has used its platform to create a searchable online version of the bill that breaks the giant document into easily navigable sections.

The Tizra version preserves the bill’s original formatting and page numbers, allowing users to reference or bookmark specific sections. The idea is to make the whole bill more Web-friendly—for example, by making it easier to cite specific spending provisions in the bill via social bookmarking sites such as Digg or Delicious. Tizra has also added a commenting function that lets users share their thoughts about specific pages of the bill.

Full Story: Tizra Makes Stimulus Bill Searchable Source: xconomy, April 1st, 2009 Author: Wade Roush Added on April 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 am, by Matt Mikula