[LINK] How Obama Will Use Web Technology

[Marghanita da Cruz]

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Marghanita
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Stilgherrian wrote:
>> On 26/01/2009, at 12:13 AM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>>> "Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive
>>> branch of the US government .. Here's the (Bush) robots.txt file from
>>> the www.whitehouse.gov website this week:
>>>
>>> User-agent: *
> <snip>
>> Nothing here indicates a change in the executive branch's mindset,  
>> just a routine change in the structure of the website. And if this  
>> came from kottke.org then Kottke ought to know better.
>>
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> To be fair, we are now in a different web era - there is wider access to
> content. The whitehouse also has the challenge of balancing feeding the media
> and talking to the population themselves. Just scanning through  Obama : from
> promise to power / David Mendell  - it sees that Obama isn't a fan of the media
> but recognises the role they play in helping him communicate with more people
> than he can personally (through rallies etc). So, ofcourse he is not going to
> ignore the Internet.
> 
> Another aspect not to be ignored is the International press, what was
> interesting while waiting for the SBS "Coverage of Obama" was watching if not
> comprehending the coverage in the non-english news bulletins.
> 
> ...and then there are the bloggers.
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> According to netcraft - they are using Linux with Apache and  Microsoft-IIS/6.0!
> <http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.whitehouse.gov>
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> The "blog" looks informative though as far as I can tell, they haven't got their
> RSS feed on full operational status
> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog>
> 
> Marghanita


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