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radar.oreilly.com - 12/2/2008
Put change.gov Under Revision Control!
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Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov : The policy section of the transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the election. At the time a spokesman for the Obama-Biden transition effort said they were ...

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change.gov - 12/10/2008
Change.gov Using Google Moderator
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lessig.org - 12/1/2008
change.gov set free
— lessig.org — Consistent with the values of any "open government," and with his strong leadership on "free debates" from the very start , the Obama team has modified the copyright notice on change.gov to embrace the freest CC license . This is great news ... (more) change.gov set free

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gigaom.com - 11/30/2008
Why Microsoft Fails to Win Online [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Microsoft’s battle to conquer the web has a certain Moby-Dick- like quality. Me-too products, muddled branding strategy and constantly playing catchup with competitors has reduced the king of software to a punch line. The more they try, ... (more) Why Microsoft Fails to Win Online [GigaOM]

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Is Putting Change.gov Under Creative Commons Really A Big Deal?
Techdirt — ... in the public domain? After all, in two months, all such content will be in the public domain anyway? It seems a little odd, counterproductive and unnecessary to add more restrictions to the content than there will be once Obama is actually in office. If the Obama team really wanted to do something meaningful concerning the content on the site, they could follow the advice of Tim O'Reilly and go beyond just putting the content in the public domain and also add revision control, thereby committing to alerting people to any changes to the ...

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