When the President addresses Congress tonight on the State of the Union, the American people have one more way they can tune in to listen live. Last week, the White House announced the launch of an application with streaming video for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. The application also features updates from the White House [...]
Transparency. Public Participation. Collaboration. They sound great in principle. As models, they are ideals that are worthy and noble to subscribe to. But goals are different than action steps. What we “want” is different from what we “have.” Now consider that the path to getting “there” is not laid out (or funded) and the scene [...]
Without a doubt, lots of (read: unprecedented) progress was made in the government 2.0 world in 2009. We saw the first federal CIO and CTOs appointed, the launch of Apps.gov and even the White House embracing the open source Drupal content management system for their Web site. At this pace, 2010 will be an even [...]
In the speech that President Obama is set to deliver tomorrow to America’s schoolchildren, a paragraph caught our attention: It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression [...]
A favorite feature of the Bush White House, online chats called “Ask the White House,” has yet to make its debut in the Obama administration.
After a long week of finals, I’m pleased to say that the blog is back in business. Seems like we chose the wrong week to take off, since government got a lot more social since the last post here: The White House started tweeting! The White House, along with about 30 federal agencies (according to [...]
The Treasury Department’s new Web site, FinancialStability.gov shares quite a few design features with WhiteHouse.gov. But that’s where the similarity between this site and a White House Web site ends. A superior Web site, FinancialStability.gov has lots of information on it — something that has largely been lacking from the various White House Web sites [...]
Yesterday’s White House town hall was really neat. President Obama seemed relaxed, and no economy-related question was off limits. He even answered a question about marijuana legalization: “I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow the economy.” People even submitted video comments! Does this remind you of the CNN/YouTube debates? Watch the full [...]
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