Digging Out
Tech Observer — ... President Bush again urged lawmakers to pass a bailout bill. "We are in a urgent situation," he said in a statement this morning, warning that the economic effects of failing to act "will be painful and lasting." ...

OPINION POLL: Who is more verbally abusive? McCain or Obama? Biden or Palin? Is that a desirable trait for a President or VP?
Politweets — ... from web @ Lisa_Nova Pull a Palin -- Have Moose for Dinner! http://tinyurl.com/6ep4p7 10:12 PM September 25, 2008 from web in reply to Lisa_Nova @ ricksanchezcnn The federal funds rate maxed out about 1980 and caused problems for new borrowers. Would no bailout hurt younger Americans? 12:17 PM September 25, 2008 from web in reply to ricksanchezcnn @ charlestrippy hahaha The correct URL for the White House is http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 01:19 AM September 25, 2008 from web in reply to ...

While USA focuses on bank runs, Palin's clothes budget and Ayers, India vs. China race for space achievement ignites http://is.gd/4wZ0
Politweets — ... PM Oct 7th from Election 2008 Obama says "making sure" way too much. 7:06 PM Oct 7th from Election 2008 "rush delivery" of the trach apparently taking over a week?? what? 4:19 PM Oct 1st from web my girlfriend ts awesome. 4:18 PM Oct 1st from web check out my blog on $700 Bil FAIL, with ORLY owl & DNW cat http://tinyurl.com/3lnke8 10:50 PM Sep 29th from web RETWEET @ lizhenry @ dickc I think that www.whitehouse.gov should just show the Fail Whale from now through the next inauguration. ...

Will Obama Do For Web What FDR Did For Radio?
Tech Daily Dose — President-elect Barack Obama, who demonstrated through the success of his campaign's Internet outreach effort that he sees value in technology, may replace the White House's traditional Saturday radio address with a weekly speech on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, New Democrat Network founder Simon Rosenberg predicted Thursday. Rosenberg, who spoke at a Computer and Communications Industry Association reception, said he envisions the talk being translated in near real-time to Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish and other languages and available to a global audience. In ...

WhiteHouse.gov will never be the same
ZDNet Government — ... . Among the features of Change.gov, which includes many of the previously posted policy positions, are a blog, YouTube videos and web forms for citizens to share stories and visions. There’s no clear indication of where this all is heading but it seems clear that the public affairs department of the new White House is going to be a Web 2.0 affair. The Web address won’t change, but WhiteHouse.gov will never look the same. …When the Illinois Democrat takes the oath of office Jan. 20, WhiteHouse.gov is likely to get a complete makeover in the style of Change.gov and the campaign ...

I wonder if the Obama administration will keep using Twitter / Flickr after the transition.
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! blazamos is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving blazamos's updates. Already using Twitter from your phone? Click here . [image] blazamos I wonder if the Obama administration will keep using Twitter / Flickr after the transition. 8 minutes ago from web "Questions about her knowledgability." How about using a noun instead of an adjective. 15 minutes ago from web ...

Palin on NBC. 15 minutes up Sarah. Get over it.
Politweets — ... lobbyists can work with me during the transition. http://is.gd/73Al about 6 hours ago from EasyTweets Liking this site, Bookmark it in the AM, http://www.politico.com/pol... about 7 hours ago from EasyTweets Man, Politico already has a page for FLOTUS - http://is.gd/72ZZ ; and POTUS - http://is.gd/730e about 7 hours ago from EasyTweets Older » RSS Name FakeObama44 Location Washington, DC Web http://www.whiteh... Bio Fake 44th President of the United States 7 Following ...

Obama Brings YouTube to the White House
Zatz Not Funny! — ... It’s unclear how many listen to President George W. Bush’s weekly radio addresses. I suppose reporters tune in, because I occasionally catch an excerpt on NPR, but I’ve never heard of anyone setting up their own podcast feed from WhiteHouse.gov for the weekly words of wisdom. Will that change when President-Elect Barak Obama ...

Obama Gets Geeky With YouTube Channel and Net Background Checks
Today @ PC World — ... Friday to broadcast the weekly presidential addresses to YouTube -- the first time such addresses have been delivered in a video format. (President Bush put audio of his speeches on the White House Web site , but video was never included.) The Webcasts will begin this weekend with the Saturday Democratic address and will continue once Obama takes over the presidency. The videos will also be posted on Obama's transition Web site, ...

Obama Says Yes We Can Use YouTube
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Nov 16, 2008 02:15 PM [image] When I first heard that President-elect Barack Obama would be using online video to distribute his weekly addresses, I was excited. It's great to see that he wants to engage the nation across both video and audio. I assumed that the videos would be posted to the whitehouse.gov and ...

@ChristianMarx schandmaennchen.de mutmaßte dazu, er werde beim nächsten Obama-Besuch "Wer hat Angst vor'm schwarzen Mann" mit ihm spielen
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! fabianpingel is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving fabianpingel's updates. Already using Twitter from your phone? Click here . [image] fabianpingel @ cducsu es ist ja schließlich auch viel einfacher, die Inder und Chinesen zum Klima schützen aufzufordern als selbst etwas zu tun... 5 minutes ago from web in reply to cducsu @ ChristianMarx ...

History Reloaded: Changing The Past To Suit The Present
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... the online encyclopedia's entries to suit their respective agendas. Such changes have also been found at the White House Web site, where the history of the Iraq war, as described in official press releases, has been revised without public notification. Two of five White House press releases detailing the number and names of countries that publicly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the "Coalition of the Willing," are no longer accessible and three of them were altered without notice, according to ...

Cyber War Games Confirm Flaws in US Security
ReadWriteWeb — ... of the Secretary of Defense was hacked The Department of State had lost terabytes of information Homeland Security suffered break-ins in several of its divisions NASA had to impose e-mail restriction before shuttle launches and had allegedly seen designs for new launches compromised The Department of Commerce was forced to take the Bureau of Industry and Security offline for several months The White House recently dealt with unidentifiable intrusions in its networks Slashdot ...

10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech
louisgray.com — ... America's political climate is extremely polarized, following the conclusion of two extremely divisive terms. As Barack Obama moves into the White House, the very features that make him a "first" will also make him and his administration the chief target for some incredibly angry and hate-filled groups. One will somehow manage to access the WhiteHouse.gov site and manipulate it this year. ...

Top 10 Online Tools to Connect With the Obama Administration
Mashable! — ... Whitehouse.gov - Whitehouse.gov is the official website of the President of the United States (POTUS). This website is a great place to learn about official policy, media releases, position papers, video of speeches, etc. There are a lot of photographs, speeches and data about the operations of the Whitehouse. ...

The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?
Wired Top Stories — ... a striking victory for government efficiency, but the process behind the scenes "was extremely difficult," says Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch. After floating the idea of donating the system to OMB ("the government can't take things for free," Bass quickly learned), the nonprofit had to sign on as a subcontractor and undergo three rounds, and six wasted months, of bidding before the deal was complete. Changes to what is effectively the president's homepage, WhiteHouse.gov, will encounter similar obstacles. David Almacy, a PR executive and new ...

Barack Obama Keeps Akamai (AKAM)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... President Obama's new WhiteHouse.gov is live. There's his agenda, a blog (with no comments feature), RSS feeds, and more, including a promise to "publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it." ...

WhiteHouse.gov Gets Obama Makeover
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The official White House Web site, WhiteHouse.gov, has been relaunched to coincide with Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. The updated and modernized design features rotating news stories at the top with a blog, a current agenda, and other information related to the White House. And fittingly, matching the main headline of “Change Has Come To America” is a smaller headline, attached to the new site’s first blog entry: “Change Has Come To WhiteHouse.gov.” The previous ...

Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face, And a Blog
TechCrunch — ... As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET, Whitehouse.gov, the official Website of the President switched over to a new design. There are links to Obama’s Agenda and a ...

Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face
TechCrunch — ... As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET, Whitehouse.gov, the official Website of the President switched over to a new design. There are links to Obama’s Agenda and a ...

Whitehouse.gov Gets a Makeover
Technologizer — At 12:01pm, the official website of the White House changed hands, and with it came quite a sea change as far as the openness of the executive branch. The website has a definite Web 2.0 feel to it — from the blogs, to the dynamic headers and whatnot. But what’s really exciting to me is the transparency. All of Obama’s executive orders and proclamations will be posted on the site for all to see. The president’s agenda is also laid out on the website, and the Administration is soliciting readers to join the mailing list to stay abreast of current government happenings. This is ...

The Digital Presidency Begins
Geek In Disguise — Obama’s speech by Wordle. No doubt this is the first digital President This image is from the BBC meanwhile I watched it live with Silverlight Twitter is holding up to >200 new Obama tweets every 10 seconds http://www.whitehouse.gov/ got a reboot and a blog

Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's
ReadWriteWeb — Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush's second inaugural speech through as well. The most common words in the two speeches were dramatically ...

Obama Renovates WhiteHouse.gov
Bits — ... is two centuries of history of citizens expressing their opinions to the president. Still, the visibility of legislation on the White House site, along with the promise of a five-day period for comments, may invite a great deal more discussion than in the past. Not surprisingly, much of WhiteHouse.gov right now looks a great deal like Mr. Obama’s campaign site and Change.gov, the site of his transition. The president’s campaign platform has been transformed into a section on his agenda . And there is a ...

President Obama Promises to Bring Transparency to the White House
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — President Barack Obama was sworn in a the 44th president of the United States less than an hour ago and he’s already promising to bring (radical?) transparency to the White House. Along with a new WhiteHouse.gov web site, there’s a new blog and the first post promises many changes including: Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President’s ...

Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed
ReadWriteWeb — Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people attended the inauguration in Washington D.C., Facebook invited the rest of the world to watch the moment online. Thanks to a partnership with CNN, online visitors were able to use CNN.com's video player to watch the live broadcast coverage of the event. We also saw what has be one of the most brilliant examples of the real-time web in action: next the video, the Facebook status updates of those watching streamed by in the sidebar. Sponsor The integration of ...

Obama Inauguration Online
dailywireless.org — ... Google’s Lat-Long Blog has inaugural-mashups. And don’t forget the new Whitehouse.gov website.

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
901am — ... Just after high noon, and just before President-elect Barack Obama took the oath of office, the White House web site reflected the change in government. The following is the first blog entry. ...

Whitehouse.gov Gets a New Media Makeover
WebProNews Feed — ... A blog post at the site from the White House Director of New Media, Macon Phillips describes some of the changes. He says the site will focus on three priorities: - Communication - Transparency - Participation Sounds like the key ingredients to new media best practices to me. The site will feature "timely and in-depth" content along with RSS feeds for the blog, agenda articles, the press office, OMB news, photo gallery, and videos (email updates are also available). With regards to transparency , Phillips notes that Obama intends to ...

New Obama whitehouse.gov website features blog, hopes to engage citizens
Obsessable News Feed — ... . Continuing with the spirit of access and involvement, the new White House website features a blog, where the Director of New Media outlined the administration's goals for the site. ...

Whitehouse.gov remodeling includes larger windows, more doors
GMSV — The change anticipated for so long by so many came quickly, just after noon in Washington. After centuries of struggle and halting progress, the nation was finally able to welcome … its first White House new media director. He is Macon Phillips, formerly with Blue State Digital , and he is the first to post in a new White House blog, one of the features of the instantly remodeled presidential site, whitehouse.gov . The goal of the site, Phillips said, is to give people a better view of the governing process and a ...

The White House Gets a Blog [Inauguration]
Lifehacker — [image] President Barack Obama's campaign embraced technology on the campaign trail like none before, so it's no surprise that the new face of the White House on the web comes complete with a ...

change.gov Becomes whitehouse.gov
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... became whitehouse.gov. For those of us in tech, this is an amazing affirmation. Not only did the Web 2.0 principles of user-engagement, viral outreach, rapid development, and real-time intelligence help Obama to win the presidency, he's bringing the same principles and the same team to manage his outreach during his time in office. ...

WhiteHouse.gov takes a page from Twitter’s playbook
VentureBeat — One of the many cool things about President Barack Obama’s inauguration (and the resultant excitement on sites like social network Facebook and micro-blogging service Twitter) is the new WhiteHouse.gov web site, which was unveiled as Obama was sworn in. As an Obama fan, it’s exciting to see his agenda (yes, the same one that was already available on the transition team’s Change.gov website) up on the White House site, and I’m glad that Obama’s “Director ...

Web Design You Can Believe In
Fast Company - Technology — ... At the very moment Barack Obama was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, his IT department flipped the switch on a brand-new Whitehouse homepage . Any designers out there want to weigh in? Here's a screen-cap of the ...

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... As you have probably noticed, the WhiteHouse.gov site is under new management, and now it has a blog. The opening post is from Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House. It doesn't look as though Obama will be posting, but Phillips says: Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the ...

How Obama could set the stage for Participatory Governance
theory.isthereason — ... Barrack Obama, from the elections all the way to his presidency, has been the most connected president to date. As a reminder, his promise on the issue of technology includes 1) Protecting the openness of the internet, 2) Deploying a modern communications infrastructure (reducing digital divide), 3) Improve America’s competitiveness (investing in scientific innovations). ...

Another Presidential Transition: @TheWhiteHouse on Twitter
Mashable! — ... The Bush team updated Twitter more than 1,500 times, mostly with links to content like the President’s weekly radio address and more recently, text of executive orders issued in the final days of Bush’s tenure. Today, along with the rollout of a new Whitehouse.gov, the account is now featuring updates (and a new avatar) from Obama’s new media team, with links to the text of the inaugural address and the new White House blog. ...

Obama Speech Praises Tech, Ignores Small Businesses
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... -- Inauguration Day: What Businesses Can Expect From The Obama Administration -- lays out the key areas, from the Small Business Administration to how he'll deal with privacy and security issues . The markets were spooked by a lack of specifics, falling 332 points, but ChannelWeb says there are things in Obama's stimulus package to help small business . And if you don't believe in Obama's commitment to technology, check out the changes at WhiteHouse.gov . Don't Miss: Inauguration Day: What Businesses Can Expect From The Obama ...

The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office [Time Machine]
Gizmodo — ... Today has been loaded with little metaphors. Dick Cheney leaving in a wheelchair, for instance, but another amazing one is comparing the White House website today with what it looked like when Bush took office. ...

The White House Blog
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — ... President Obama’s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping our country’s future. WhiteHouse.gov is just the beginning of the new administration’s efforts to expand and deepen this online engagement. If you would like to be a part of this new change and to stay on top of upcoming news, sign up on the new web site now. Comments welcome. The White House Blog ...

Change.gov Shifts To Whitehouse.gov
paidContent — President Obama's transition site Change.gov now points readers to the revamped Whitehouse.gov. The AP notes that the site has retained some of the historical info and navigation features from former President Bush's era, but there are major upgrades, including a blog and pages outlining the Obama administration's goals and policies. In the first blog post, White House director of new media Macon Phillips explains some of the ways the administration will use the site to communicate, noting that video and photos from the ...

Inauguration Moments and Links
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... I loved the promise on the new whitehouse.gov to "publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it." I also love the fact that all of the public comment on whitehouse.gov is licensed under Creative Commons licensing. (As Carl Malamud ...

One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty One Days
louisgray.com — ... , the biggest developments will of course have very little to do with how quickly data moved across the network, or how quickly you got the news and distributed it. History isn't likely to look back on January 20, 2009, and mention the changes at whitehouse.gov, including the addition of ...

Whitehouse.gov: Looking Back at 12 Years of the US President's Web Presence
ReadWriteWeb — ... during the first Clinton administration. However, the earliest version of whitehouse.gov held in the ...

The White House starts blogging, goes web 2.0 and social
TG Daily - All News — ... The latter is the most refreshing change and demonstrates how government-run websites should be built and conceptualized. The most notable change of all, however, is the new blogging section. Yes, the Obama administration blogs! Blogging, RSS feeds, official White House YouTube channel "WhiteHouse.gov is just the beginning of the new administration's efforts to expand and deepen this online engagement," wrote Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House, in the first blog entry . Several other posts showcase the new ...

White House Website Gets a Refresh, Too
Internet Evolution: — ... p.m., the WhiteHouse.gov site had indergone a facelift, giving the boot to a photo of the outgoing president (Bush, I think he was called) and re-launching with a photo of President Obama and some information on how the new site will operate and what its purpose will be. But much like the change the new president says he can bring to the country, the actual success and impact this site will have on the administration and for the American people remains to be seen. According to a blog posted on WhiteHouse.gov , the new site will focus on ...

Another Presidential Transition: @TheWhiteHouse on Twitter
textually.org — ... the account is now featuring updates (and a new avatar) from Obama’s new media team, with links to the text of the inaugural address and the new White House blog. ...

Whitehouse.gov gets redeisgned interface and a blog
D' Technology Weblog — ... Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House reports in his first blog post that at exactly 12 PM ET, ...

Is a tax cut for higher income groups up ahead?
BloggingStocks — ... It won't happen this year -- almost all Obama administration and Congressional energy has to be dedicated toward fiscal stimulus and related programs to get the U.S. economy moving again -- but after GDP growth resumes, 'the great tax debate' will start. ...

Is the New Obama Administration Walking Away From Transparency Already?
Technology Liberation Front — ... The new Whitehouse.gov went live shortly after Barack Obama became president yesterday. It has much of the look and feel of his transition Web site, ...

Is the New Obama Administration Walking Away from Transparency Already?
Cato @ Liberty — ... The new Whitehouse.gov went live shortly after Barack Obama became president yesterday. It has much of the look and feel of his transition Web site, ...

What Far-Out Technology Of Today Will Be Mainstream In 2019?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Jan 21, 2009 02:47 PM [image] The president of the United States has a blog: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/ It's featured prominently on ...

Is a tax cut for higher income groups up ahead?
BloggingStocks — ... It won't happen this year -- almost all Obama administration and Congressional energy has to be dedicated toward fiscal stimulus and related programs to get the U.S. economy moving again -- but after GDP growth resumes, 'the great tax debate' will start. ...

E-Gov 2.0 in Action
PolicyBeta — ... was unveiled as he was sworn into office yesterday, it came together with a privacy policy prescribing just the kinds of choices we were thinking about. ...

Still Sorting Out WhiteHouse.gov
Tech Daily Dose — The White House Web team is still working out some kinks as the Obama administration transitions to a new site.

White House is IT backwater
ZDNet Government — Inability to update whitehouse.gov : By late evening, the vaunted new White House Web site did not offer any updated posts about President Obama’s busy first day on the job, which included an inaugural prayer service, an open house with the public, and meetings with his economic and national security teams. Nor did the site reflect the transparency Obama promised to deliver. … No one could quite explain the problem — but they swore it would be fixed. Lack of protocols: One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was ...

New Official White House Website is Slow to Update
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — The new official White House website at whitehouse.gov has been lauded for its redesign but the most important thing about any website is fresh content. That's something the new website is seriously lacking. There have been many historical events that have taken place in the last 48 hours and most of them aren't documented on the offical White House website - no photos, no reports and no videos. ...

White House stuck in "technological dark ages"
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... , Obama's team arrived at the White House Tuesday to find only a handful of laptops, old PCs running outdated software, disconnected phone lines, and a series of rules and regulations that essentially forbid anything resembling Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, or AIM. Indeed, as the Post points out, Obama's sleek new White House Web site is looking pretty weak right now, with only five posts (as of Thursday morning) on the ...

GOP Thoughts On Obama's New Web Site
Tech Daily Dose — Former Republican National Committee Web whiz Patrick Ruffini thinks President Barack Obama's new WhiteHouse.gov is pretty but he was expecting something "a bit more majestic." The political consultant wrote on his EngageDC blog that: "Obama's design efforts have gotten progressively more workmanlike since the campaign site was refreshed with ethereal, cloud-like design in early 2008. I was expecting a return to something more like that now that Obama actually is the president, rather than pretending to be the president with fake seals and federal imagery." ...

New job challenges in the White House
CrunchGear — ... get retired now? It hasn’t been updated since the 19th. Will we see a regularly updated blog at whitehouse.gov? Will new staffers be allowed to access all the social networking sites on which they’ve come to rely? ...

Addressing the State of the White House Technology
WebProNews Feed — ... The Privacy Policy at WhiteHouse.gov depicts very strict rules about using persistent cookies on government sites, YouTube is apparently exempt from this because they want to be able to embed YouTube videos on the site. Some are wondering why they don't just use their own video service. "The U.S. should be able to stream videos through its own service at this point without making YouTube its default online video service," ...

Google Maps and New York City create ingenious local resource
TG Daily - All News — ... and the new Whitehouse.gov websites are just two examples of the Internet's power when properly applied. These two sites are also quite likely just the tip of the iceberg of online renovations we'll be seeing in 2009 as the Internet population moves toward its ...

Google Maps and New York City create ingenious local resource
TG Daily - Trendwatch News — ... and the new Whitehouse.gov websites are just two examples of the Internet's power when properly applied. These two sites are also quite likely just the tip of the iceberg of online renovations we'll be seeing in 2009 as the Internet population moves toward its ...

The Whitehouse.gov-YouTube Cookie Kerfuffle
Technology Liberation Front — Chris Sogohian called out a problem and now takes credit for a fix to the way the Whitehouse.gov Web site delivered third-party cookies - specifically YouTube cookies. The use of YouTube videos on the President’s site is a Web 2.0-ish improvement, which is welcome, but embedding videos meant that YouTube was placing cookies on the computers of visitors to Whitehouse.gov and - as a natural result - collecting records of people’s visits to that site. Things got weird when the Whitehouse.gov privacy policy exempted YouTube cookies ...

White House Web Site Revisits Privacy Policy
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... player that must be clicked to initiate loading. This addresses an inconsistency in the White House site's privacy policy which stated that there was a way to view videos without receiving a persistent cookie. The review could lead to changes in the site's privacy policy designed to clarify the site's privacy practices. This action appears to be in keeping with a commitment to be responsive to community concerns. In the first blog post on the new whitehouse.gov on Tuesday, Macon Phillips, Director of New Media for the White House, ...

Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web
ReadWriteWeb — ... Software. DEMO09 is the launchpad for emerging technology. MediaTemple provides hosting for RWW. VisualCV lets you stand out from the crowd when job-hunting. Eurekster is a custom social search portal. SixApart provides our publishing software MT4. RWW Jobwire The White House Names New Media Director As noted above, the WhiteHouse.gov website saw major improvements this week - thanks in large part to the efforts of ...

Obama's Desire For A BlackBerry Illuminates Network Security Holes
bMighty.com - Features — ... signals. Parents have used it to track their children's whereabouts, and sometimes a suspicious individual has done it to a spouse or friend. Bad guys may use such features to track Obama's whereabouts and use that information to try and harm him. The inability to use his BlackBerry does not mean that the president will not have modern communications methods at his disposal. Rather than rely on a public communications systems like the BlackBerry, the NSA has mandated that the White House and its staff use a proprietary network for e-mail, voice, video, and data delivery. ...

President Obama uses RDFa
SitePoint — The WhiteHouse.gov site is CC licensing all its material, and if you peak behind the covers (view source), you will see some RDFa. Granted it is a small start, but it is a start. Well done to the new administration and I look forward to more openness and more Web mashups! Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>. Visitors to this website agree to ...

UK’s Directgov giving Change.gov a run for its money
TechCrunch — ... (now Whitehouse.gov), which solicits ideas from citizens of all backgrounds on a range of topics, Directgov is recruiting ideas from the developer community for a specific challenge: how to make Directgov itself more innovative. ...

The Secrets of Obama's Email [The President's Email]
Gizmodo — ... And, it's likely that his top secret email address will be changed on a regular basis. If you are lucky enough to get an email from him, it's encrypted in such a way that it can't be forwarded to your parents, or anyone. No attachments will get through, either. Left sadly unanswered, however, is the greatest question of all: Does Oprah, formerly the most important person in America whose name starts with O, have his email address? [NYT, Top Image: Pete Souza/The White House] ...

Kiva is looking for developers
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... where lenders could keep track of each other's loans and maybe compete to make them. "Someone who's 18 years old and in college wants to interact differently with Kiva than someone who was given a gift certificate by the grandchildren and has not been exposed to technology," Woodward said. Kiva gets plenty of requests from people wanting to pitch in and help, he said, and this is one way for them to do it. Woodward's first job was non-profit -- he supervised the development of whitehouse.gov for the Clinton administration while he was in college -- and he believes Kiva is ...

Where does the U.S. economy go from here?
BloggingStocks — ... Further, the young President Barack Obama, like the young President John F. Kennedy, has learned that presidential honeymoons can be short inside the beltway, particularly if you have to trade policy to obtain votes both inside your party and among the loyal opposition. ...

Where does the U.S. economy go from here?
BloggingStocks — ... Further, the young President Barack Obama, like the young President John F. Kennedy, has learned that presidential honeymoons can be short inside the beltway, particularly if you have to trade policy to obtain votes both inside your party and among the loyal opposition. ...

See how the presidents live away from home
Gadling — Filed under: History, North America, United States, VideoThere's more to the presidency than the White House. From Camp David to presidential libraries across the country, there are plenty of portals into the lives of those who have held the most powerful office in the world. In fact, the real insights may come not from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but from these other homes. A recent article on CNN offers five prime locations. Lincoln's Birthplace: Run by the National Park Service, ...

Visit Recovery.gov to learn how the government spends $787B
VentureBeat — ... Past visitors to WhiteHouse.gov will probably notice that that recovery site looks almot identical. There are some cool bits of information up there already, including the text of the bill itself, as well as charts showing (very broadly) how the money will be spent. Even better is the promise of more to come, particularly searchable data on where exactly federal agencies are distributing the money. The site also says the team is looking at ways to make that data exportable for mashups and gadgets, although there are no solid promises. ...

88 Outstanding Favicons and 6 Resources to Help You Create Your Own
SitePoint — ... DesignFloat LightMix Design Studio Pink Cake Box The White House deviantART ...

What can government do for open source
Open Source — ... Given the site’s similarity in look-and-feel to the official Whitehouse.Gov site I have to wonder if there might not be more open source to come. (Word to ...

White House Says No to YouTube
Mashable! — ... site used to rely on YouTube for video hosting, but now they’ve apparently switched to a generic video player, delivered by Akamai’s content delivery network. ...

White House Web Site Stops Using YouTube-Embedded Video
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Mar 2, 2009 07:39 PM [image] The White House stopped embedding YouTube videos on its Web site. Videos featuring U.S. President Barack Obama initially used long-term cookies to track blog visitors, whether or not they watched the video. After privacy advocates complained about YouTube tracking citizens because they had sought public information from their government, the White House Web site stopped tracking users who had not watched the videos. Now, Google can't track any visitors who view government videos on the White House Web site because the videos, which require ...

ChangeTracker
dailywireless.org — ... , a service which lets visitors view the most recent changes to WhiteHouse.gov (and several other government sites). This service uses ...

Government Online: Outreach vs. Transparency
Freedom to Tinker — ... WhiteHouse.gov, envisioned as the primary vehicle for President Obama to communicate with the online masses, has been overwhelmed by challenges that staffers did not foresee and technological problems they have yet to solve. ...

A Far Cry from ‘Axis of Evil’
Cato @ Liberty — ... Hoping to derail the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Obama today gave an unprecedented appeal to the Iranian people in a special video message. In it, he offers a “new beginning” of engagement to end the nearly 30 years of hostile bilateral relations.  ...

News Bits: Obama Takes Questions From the Web
Contentinople: — ... was an invitation for the American people to submit questions , either via text or video, for his online town hall meeting today, or vote on which ones they think should be asked. By the time voting closed today at 9:30 a.m., 91,795 people had submitted 103,221 questions, and 3,575,622 votes had been cast. Obama, who is the third most popular member of the "Twitterati" -- trailing only CNN and Britney Spears in ...

Obama Takes Your Questions... Some of Them
Internet Evolution: — ... called " Open for Questions ." Using an online submission form, Web-goers were able to choose from a dropdown list of topics related to the economy: Education, Home Ownership, Health Care Reforms, Veterans, Small Business, Auto Industry, Retirement Security, Green Jobs and Energy, Financial Stability, Jobs, and Budget. In addition to submitting questions, in text and optional 30-second video clips, users voted questions up or down, which were then ranked by their popularity. Open for Questions was closed to submissions at 9:30 a.m. ET today -- registering a ...

Obama Conducts Online Townhall Meeting
Contentinople: — ... called " Open for Questions ." Using an online submission form, Web-goers were able to choose from a dropdown list of topics related to the economy: Education, Home Ownership, Health Care Reforms, Veterans, Small Business, Auto Industry, Retirement Security, Green Jobs and Energy, Financial Stability, Jobs, and Budget. To continue reading, see the ...

Week in Review: News, Views & Non-Stop Boxee
Contentinople: — Boxee , the software application that aggregates online video sites and allows owners of PCs and set-tops to feed Internet video onto their TVs, dominated headlines this week. In fact, the debate continued on our messages boards where Boxee's CEO and founder, Avner Ronen sets the record straight. "The cable companies and cable channels can choose to ignore it, or try and find their place within a new eco-system," he writes here . With that in mind, here's a roundup of this week's news, views, and the cat-and-mouse game between Boxee and online video content providers: On Monday, March 16 , Ronen, the ...

White House plans modified Washington Monument in 'carbon-free' National Mall
DVICE Atom Feed — ... the green message it would send to the rest of the world. Queen Elizabeth recently bought a humungous wind turbine of her own, so Obama clearly believed that America should follow the U.K.'s example and unveil a bold green symbol for America. In fact, 10 megawatts would actually be enough to power all of the Washington, D.C., metro area, so maybe he plans sells power back to local utility Pepco put a dent in that trillion-dollar federal deficit. Via The White House

The White House Gets A MySpace Page To Show Off Obama’s Hoop Skills
TechCrunch — ... Other than teh blog post with the video, there isn’t much to the page other than a few links to Whitehouse.gov and to Obama’s and Vice President Joe Biden’s MySpace pages, as well as a link to some playful White House photos. The whole page seems designed to humanize Obama and help younger voters relate to him. ...

White House Starts Email Updates
Tech Daily Dose — For about 10 seconds I felt really special to have an email from President Obama in my inbox. But then I clicked open the message titled "Health care news worth sharing" and realized the email alerts I signed up for when the administration unveiled the new, improved WhiteHouse.gov had begun. Wednesday's email blast was in fact the first time Team Obama has utilized the Web tool to reach out to constituents, a spokesman told Tech Daily Dose. This message came after Obama and Vice President Biden met with House leaders and received their commitment to ...

Most Popular Online Media Sites Among Bloggers
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... 29. Business Week 39. Philly.com 49. Star Tribune 10. Reuters 20. San Francisco Chronicle 30. The White House 40. The Houston Chronicle   ...

New White House Initiatives Take A Big Step Towards Participatory Gov't
Techdirt — ... that really do appear to be trying to enable more participation and transparency. While I don't see it yet, the Whitehouse.gov site will apparently "become a repository for citizen suggestions and discussion regarding new open-government policies." And, more importantly, ...

Obama administration announces new head Computer Security position
Gizmos for Geeks — ... I love the fact that his speech included terms like ‘malware, spyware, spoofing’ and more. You can see (or read) the president’s speech on the White House website. ...

The White House and Web 2.0: Reality Sets In
ReadWriteWeb — The Center for American Progress, a liberal policy and advocacy group, just released an interesting memo (PDF) about the White House's use of Web 2.0. There can be little doubt that the Obama campaign skillfully used the Internet to raise funds and create and manage a grassroots organization that, in the end, carried them to the White House. Now, however, a lot of us have grown a bit restless, looking at how slowly the White House is adopting Web 2.0 tools like social networks and blogs, especially when compared to the Obama campaign. This memo, however, puts things into perspective. While the ...

YouTube Removes Cookies From the White House
Mashable! — ... Recently, we wrote about the White House taking measures to ensure the videos that appear on whitehouse.gov do not set cookies that retrieve information about the viewer’s online habits - something that embedded YouTube videos do. ...

WhiteHouse.gov Youtube videos no longer being tracked, EFF calls for more videos including those of “human rights, potentially sensitive subjects” to also be non-trackable
Josh Chandler — ... Whitehouse.gov, a US goverment run site designed to provide information about legislation, and key presidential decisions, has today become the first ...

Who Said “No Comment”?
Cato @ Liberty — ... Speaking to reporters following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on June 15th, President Obama said: ...

An economic wish-list for the United States for the second half of 2009
BloggingStocks — ... The first half of 2009 has whizzed by in what seems like a macroeconomic eye-blink. Wasn't President Obama inaugurated just a few weeks ago? It's a cliché but it's true: time flies. ...

WhiteHouse.gov Broadens Blog Reach
Tech Daily Dose — The Internet experts at Morningside Analytics recently took a look at the blog footprint of WhiteHouse.gov now and one year ago. The results? The Obama administration has successfully expanded its online reach beyond the political blogger echo chamber and is now part of a broader discussion within online communities that are normally attentive to health, science, technology and culture, the firm said. Above, an illustration of the current reach of WhiteHouse.gov. Click here to compare with a 2008 snapshot.

U.S. Launches Informal Antitrust Probe Of Large Telcos
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — The Obama Administration is taking on the phone companies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Department Of Justice has begun “an initial review” to determine whether large telecom companies - “such as” AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) - have abused their market power. The story is sourced to “people familiar with the matter.” The story says the antitrust probe is in the early stages, and is not a formal investigation of any specific ...

North Korean Attacks Hit Nasdaq, NYSE Web Sites
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... Nasdaq (NDAQ) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX), according to the Wall Street Journal. The attacks are believed to have been carried out either by North Koera or by North Korean sympathizers. According to the Associated Press, the attackers went after a long list of targets, bringing down some Web sites temporarily. Among the other U.S. targets of the attacks were Web sites for the following: The White House The National Security Agency Department of Homeland ...

Ten Websites, Ten Years Ago
SitePoint — ... on the murder of Jill Dando. Microsoft.com offered a download of Internet Explorer 5. Wired Magazine Yahoo! Are currently showing a sneak peak of their new homepage, but it used to look like this for quite a while. Monster.com: Many a CV has passed through here since 1999 The Onion.com, built with frames, remember them? The White House is the most dramatically changed of all the ten websites listed here. ...

The Most Interesting Tech Startup of 2009?
Inc.com — ... , and WhiteHouse.gov. But what stands out, says Dash, is that each site has consistent branding elements, is thoughtful about design (from the look to the information architecture), and features new APIs and data sources to build third-party applications. With the innovation around open APIs for services like Flickr and Twitter, and the success of Apps for America, that last point may be the most significant, says Dash. Read our July tech piece on how open APIs can help your company find a small army of volunteer developers to ...

FOSS vs. the Winged Monkeys: Q&A With Open Source for America's Chris Lundberg
LinuxInsider — Chris Lundberg has worked for years to drive the availability of technology to the masses. He has managed teams developing software for the Library of Congress, worked with the U.S. Navy to develop satellite communications software and consulted for Accenture ...

Obama Speech to School Kids Not As Scary As Conspiracy Theories
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White House Runs Into Social Media Challenges
Internet Evolution: — ... to allow for use of third-party social media applications, among other things. But most people who work in and around government, Phillips included, will admit that the greatest barrier to new media implementation is cultural -- getting the rest of the feds on board with what the administration is trying to accomplish, tech-wise. "When I go to the Website [ WhiteHouse.gov ], I think about traffic and I think about the need for more," says Phillips. "But it's not so much the need for more public traffic." On the public traffic front, in fact, WhiteHouse.gov has seen a ...

Obama's Health Insurance Reform Plan Gets Facebook App
ReadWriteWeb — ... to rally for President Barack Obama's widely disputed Health Insurance Reform Plan.While the application was only shared with Facebook users 6 hours ago, 350 people have already commented on everything from education, to war, to congressional travel records to general partisanship. ...

PrivacyChoice makes Terms of Service easily-readable
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Web Earlier in the year, Jay covered PrivacyChoice - a service that lets you easily opt-out of tracking cookies with a tonne of webservices. However, very few people really know how these services plan to use your information. I'll admit a ...

Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade
ZDNet Government — ... and many others and update almost daily . The White House is linked to all of them! Are the changes in direction about faces to implementation of such web portals? Is this truly going to change governments and how they create law? As technology, security solutions and applications improve and become trusted, I would not be surprised to see certified referendums, municipal and federal government level voting on specific issues be made available and counted on web sites or portals, a reality within a year in some parts of the world. Some countries are already doing limited ...

Drupal challenged as White House goes blog
Open Source — ... The switch was designed to be transparent, but even a casual observer will note the site now features five separate blogs, and that officials’ names are now listed on announcements that read more like stories, often with personal details. ...

White House dumps Bush' CMS for Open Source
TG Daily - All News — The US government has swapped out its old CMS and has decided to go for Drupal, an open source content management system. Drupal is the system that Barack Obama's administration has chosen, and you can see what it looks like by browsing over here . The previous content management system was a proprietary system and the White House thinks that Drupal has better security options than the old one, getting a little long in the tooth. The win is a boost for the Open Source community, and will probably make Microsoft gnash its teeth. Microsoft has an office in Washington DC not far ...

WhiteHouse.gov Switches to Drupal
901am — ... Score one more for open source — and by extension, open governance. WhiteHouse.gov has ditched its previous Bush-era proprietary content management system, and ...

Under First Open-Source Prez Obama, White House Adopts Drupal, but at What Cost?
Fast Company - Technology — ... What do the White House and FastCompany.com have in common? The both run on Web engine Drupal. The White House has just switched over. Obama loves some open-source, it seems. ...

The White House switch to open source: Tim O'Reilly's thoughts
Boing Boing — Over the weekend, the White House new media team announced (via AP) that whitehouse.gov now runs on the open source content management system Drupal. Tim O'Reilly puts this news into context: This move is obviously a big win for open source. As John Scott of Open Source for America (a group advocating open source adoption by government, to which I am an advisor) noted in an email to me: "This is great news not only for the use of open source software, but the validation of the open source development model. The White House's adoption of community-based software provides ...

FOSS Goes to Washington, and Nvidia Keeps Its Driver Code to Itself
LinuxInsider — You know it's going to be a good week when it kicks off with news that the Obama administration has officially embraced the open source content management system Drupal . Sure enough, none other than the official WhiteHouse.gov site now uses the Drupal platform, ushering in a whole range of new benefits over the old, proprietary technology of days gone by. Exciting? You bet. But that wasn't all! DoD Memo Just a few days later, the Department of Defense issued an almost glowingly positive memo on open source software -- soon to be posted, apparently, on an official DoD ...

Open-Source Obama
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... team started using Drupal (a popular open-source CMS [content management system]) and Linux to run Web sites back in February. The first Federal site to make the jump to Drupal was Recovery.com , which tracks Recovery Act spending. You probably only noticed that transition if you were a Drupal user. Now, though, Obama and his staff have switched the White House's own Web site to Linux and Drupal . The executive branch's programmers made the change to the White House site not because they wanted to change its look; according to an AP ...

Drupal Moves Into the White House
NYT > Technology — ... . In the Internet world, Drupal is not as bad as it sounds. The open source software package helps people create and manage their Web sites. And this week a new WhiteHouse.gov site arrived that had been built via the Drupal code. To some, the White House shift to Drupal from a proprietary software package represented a serious seal of approval for open source software. “While open source is already widespread throughout the government, its adoption by the White House will almost certainly give permission for much wider uptake,” ...

Drupal Moves Into the White House
Bits — ... . In the Internet world, Drupal is not as bad as it sounds. The open source software package helps people create and manage their Web sites. And this week a new WhiteHouse.gov site arrived that had been built via the Drupal code. To some, the White House shift to Drupal from a proprietary software package represented a serious seal of approval for open source software. “While open source is already widespread throughout the government, its adoption by the White House will almost certainly give permission for much wider uptake,” ...

ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day
ZDNet Government — ...  Soon the entire world will have governments and utility companies capable of remotely shutting off your electricity and you won’t have a choice. Also included on the last Friday of each month, I will blog my take on the best and worst government websites. Send me an email if you find ones that I should rate. At the end of the year I’ll announce the ‘awards’ of each category. Best Website for month of October for Content City of Los Angeles Best Website - Organization of Content Whitehouse, Washington D.C. Most innovative government website: Open Internet by the ...