news.cnet.com - 1/22/2009
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President Obama signed an order on Wednesday proclaiming that the entire federal government should be more open, transparent, and Internet-friendly. It said that agencies must "put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public."
That ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
thenational.ae - 1/25/2009
content.usatoday.com - 1/21/2009
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The redesigned whitehouse.gov , which went live at
12:01 p.m. ET yesterday just as President Obama officially...
took office, isn't fully operational just yet. But a quick tour around its features indicates it will have some interesting features, along ...
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On the new whitehouse.gov: 'Pool' reports to be public? ...
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Daily Digest: Through the Wormhole, Into the White House
techPresident —
... and will require "a careful eye to concerns of privacy, security, and the prerogatives of closed deliberation."* And what's more, Wonderlich says, that the executive orders weren't posted on WhiteHouse.gov for several hours is a reminder that, in practice, real-time transparency isn't easy. ...
White House Web Site Fail
Sound Politics —
... , I'll cut Team Obama some slack given the initiation phase of dealing with hopelessly stale government technology (as my own recent days at the U.S. Department of Education will attest), but I note with interest this: Obama's Whitehouse.gov: Frozen in time? Long story short, the web site isn't exactly receiving updates in a timely manner...even as the rest of Obama's communications operations is consumed with the dizzying pace of the opening days of any Administration. Again, governing is different than campaigning. And Congress hasn't even started being a real pain in the ass ...
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