Background: the FISA Court made a public docket only just last month. It's at http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/index.html, and is a tiny flat page with links to scanned PDFs. They clearly update it by hand, whenever something becomes public.

I wrote a Ruby script to watch the page every 5 minutes. When there's a change, it texts me, emails me, and tweets as @FISACourt with a link to a diff of the changes.

When I get notified, I read the new documents and follow up the automatic tweet with a hand-written one that explains the update, usually within just a few minutes of the posting.

Simple, but it breaks news faster than the blogs and papers do. The code is here: https://github.com/konklone/fisa

And I have some further explanation on my blog: http://konklone.com/post/following-the-fisa-court-the-advanc...