Submit a Story!
Obama's Whitehouse.gov: Frozen in time?
Obama's Whitehouse.gov: Frozen in time?
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 ...
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
whitehouse.gov — The first post on WhiteHouse.gov. (more) Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
On the new whitehouse.gov: 'Pool' reports to be public? - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency
content.usatoday.com — 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 ... (more) On the new whitehouse.gov: 'Pool' reports to be public? ...
Comments
Blog Reactions

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 ...

Related Content
What Whitehouse.Gov Says About Clinton, Bush
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/21/2009 — Its Clinton biography makes no mention of the economy's performance in his terms, but refers to " the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform" and " issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House ...
The New WhiteHouse.gov
engagedc.com 1/23/2009 — As Barack Obama took the Oath of Office as the 44th President today, another important piece of state business was happening on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue: turning on the Obamaified WhiteHouse.gov . This bit of “change” is ...
Thoughts on the new WhiteHouse.gov
techpresident.com 1/23/2009 — As Sarah noted yesterday , the White House website got a facelift at 12:01 yesterday as the typically stuffiness of the White House web site smacked headlong into the calming blues of the Obama campaign/transition sites. I thought I'd take a moment ...
WhiteHouse.Gov: 'Robots' Text file
web.archive.org 1/22/2009 — former whitehouse.gov robots.txt
Whitehouse.gov Contradicts Obama's Gun Claims
confederateyankee.mu.nu 1/22/2009 — Despite numerous public claims in the past that he would leave gun owners alone, reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban and enacting other restrictions are very much on Barack Obama's "Urban Policy" agenda. ...
Press Briefings Section Lacking On Obama WhiteHouse.gov Site
newsbusters.org 1/23/2009 — As a search of whitehouse.gov caches through the site archive.org shows, the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations often featured transcripts of their daily press briefings easily accessible on the Web site. In the case of the Bush ...
Frozen Wages
calculatedriskblog.com 12/24/2008 — IN addition to more part time workers, freezing wages is becoming a common theme (hat tip Brian): From Reuters: U.S. manufacturers cut jobs and pay amid downturn According to the employment consulting firm Watson Wyatt, 11 percent of all the ...
WhiteHouse.Gov: Search Results Page for keyword "BUSH"
whitehouse.gov 1/22/2009 — search pages
A Day Frozen In Time
ettlin.blogspot.com 11/6/2008 — Extra! Extra! Read all about it! (Or tuck it away for posterity) Newspapers as instant history Occasionally, over the course of my 40 years at The Baltimore Sun, I would be called on to visit a school and talk about newspapers. I would bring a sampling of them – the type with gaudy front ...
Grading Whitehouse.gov
thenextright.com 3/26/2009 — 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 ...
Obama to name Mitchell Mideast envoy at State event todayCNN Political Ticker 1/22/2009
Mitchell has been tapped as Mideast envoy. WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that President Obama will name former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as his special envoy for the Middle East during an event at the State Department ...
Obama turns the page on Bush yearsPOLITICO.com: Politics 1/22/2009
Day by day,  President Obama is erasing both the spirit and substance of  Bush administration.
Obama orders review in al-Qaida sleeper case (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/22/2009
AP - The tricky case of an accused al-Qaida sleeper agent will take a little longer as Obama administration officials decide what to do with him.
Obama seeks delay in case of enemy combatant held in US (AFP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/22/2009
AFP - US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order asking the Supreme Court to delay a review of the case of Qatari national Ali al-Marri, the only "enemy combatant" detained on US soil.
Obama Orders Guantanamo's Closure Within a YearWash Post Obama Administration 1/22/2009
President Barack Obama today signed a series of executive orders to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year and end harsh interrogation techniques previously used on terrorist suspects, saying America will wage war on ...