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thenextright.com - 3/26/2009
Grading Whitehouse.gov
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The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is doing "a monthly feature that invites five thinkers across the online political and cultural spectrum to grade President Obama's WhiteHouse.gov."  Vargas was kind enough to include me in his panel, along with Craig Newmark ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 3/24/2009
Grading WhiteHouse.gov | 44
— voices.washingtonpost.com — I agree with KanDaShan--it used to be easier to look up daily activities and all press releases... and press conferences. What really prompted me to post today is my frustration with the lack of proofreading before publishing. Jose--please proof before ... (more) Grading WhiteHouse.gov | 44

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corner.nationalreview.com - 4/1/2009
Grading Bush and Obama
— corner.nationalreview.com — Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Richard Epstein, professor of law at the University of Chicago and NYU, on... the responses of presidents Bush and Obama to the economic crisis. One characteristic, Epstein argues, unites both men: An astonishing ignorance ... (more) Grading Bush and Obama

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Clearing the Cache: The Colbert Conundrum
techPresident — ... place -- even outer space! One more thing on Tim Geithner's "to do" list: FinancialStability.gov is still "coming soon." (Beats Data.gov, which doesn't yet have a placeholder.) John Murtha vs. Uncle Jimbo. A Sacramento rep Google Maps recovery spending in her district. Frankly, that's just kinda neat. Jon Henke fleshes out his assessment of WhiteHouse.gov. Getting new ...

Grading Whitehouse.gov, Part 2
The Next Right — The second edition of the Washington Post's Grading Whitehouse.gov series is up.  The panel includes David Weinberger, Ellen Miller, Craig Newmark, Andrew Rasiej, David Almacy and myself.  Our bottom line... The group's average grade on first assessment in March was a C+, far from the mostly glowing early reviews of the Obama administration. As one of the graders summed up, Obama's WhiteHouse.gov "still has a long way to go to meet the expectations that the President himself set during the campaign." In this second report card, the site's grades range from C to A-, with the average ...

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Open for Questions: A Republican Opportunity
thenextright.com 3/26/2009 — The long awaited MyBO and Change.gov mojo is back on WhiteHouse.gov. Tomorrow, President Obama will be responding to questions posed through the latest iteration of Open for Questions , a community-moderated style townhall. With a little ...
Tracking the Top Questions on Obama's Online Townhall — techPresident
Teaser:  For the record, the top three questions by each sub-topic on WhiteHouse.gov today are listed below. I'll come back later to mark up the ones that were actually asked. For the record, the top three questions by each sub-topic on ...
Online Obama Live — Hoffmania!
He's answering the web questions at WhiteHouse.gov right now . Remember how we yearned for a president who can speak about everything coherently? We have him.
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Liveblogging the White House's "Open for Questions" — techPresident
Teaser:  From the Department of If We Don't Do It, Who Will? , Micah and I will be liveblogging the White House's online town hall in which President Obama will take questions from WhiteHouse.gov's "Open for Questions" experiment . Join us at 11:30am ET today. ...
Getting Our "Open for Questions" Legs: Making Sense of the WhiteHouse.gov Experiment — techPresident
Teaser:  Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the White House new media team is emerging triumphant from ...Lemme try again. Like General George Washington's revolutionary soldiers, counted out after their rations dwindled and they couldn't get their email ...
Obama taking online questions — News
Just a quick planning note: We'll be watching President Obama's online townhall on WhiteHouse.gov today at 11:30 A.M., so be sure to check in…
Obama's Virtual Town Hall Questions — Politics Daily
As announced yesterday , the president will hold the first ever virtual town hall meeting today at 11:30 a.m. Anyone who registers at WhiteHouse.gov can submit a question. So far, 82,358 have done so. A Digg-style format, where users vote on which questions the president should answer, has ...
Binky to TObama - “I will have plasma or I will abandon you, punk” — RedState: Conservative News and Community
Inner workings at www.BaskInTheIncredibleAwesomenessOfMe.gov (where whitehouse.gov redirects, for those of you in Rio Linda) show a tempestuous relationship between the POTUS and his binky . During TObama’s meteoric rise to fame and electoral success, it seems there was enough glory for ...
Whitehouse.gov Catching Up With Change.gov — Swampland
Internet politics geeks, myself included, were dazzled by all the innovative stuff that the Obama transition team did on their website Change.gov--posting raw documents, allowing people to comment on raw documents, opening comment threads, allowing people to ask and vote on questions for ...
White House Opens "Open For Questions" — techPresident
I'm writing from my iPhone so I'll be brief and fill in more late. White House new media staffer and director of citizen engagement has announced that over at http://www.Whitehouse.gov/openforquestions they are reviving Change.gov's "Open for Questions" interactive forum. Perhaps today's ...
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The prophet is having second thoughts. In comments that have received remarkably scant coverage on this side of the pond, Clay Shirky, while in London last month promoting the release of Here Comes Everybody in paperback, said the following : “All the rhetoric, including - I'm embarrassed to ...
Grading WhiteHouse.gov — 44
By Jose Antonio Vargas So is WhiteHouse.gov making the grade? A few weeks ago we wrote that WhiteHouse.gov, under the direction of Obama campaign veteran Macon Phillips, had hit a few technical and bureaucratic bumps. Today, we begin a monthly feature that invites five thinkers across the online ...