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Entries from January 2009

Change has come.. Whitehouse Blog Launched..

January 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog, Government 2.0, Government Policy, Trust, USA, Web 2.0, transparency

www.whitehouse.gov on 20th January 2009

Www.whitehouse.gov on 21st January 2009

and this is good news.. as you can see the new site includes a new Whitehouse Blog..

From Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House (writing on the Whitehouse Blog):
A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the [...]

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The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Government Policy, Politics, Trust, USA, transparency

From an Article By Evan Ratliff on Wired.com
In November, not two weeks after winning the election and still two months from becoming commander in chief, Barack Obama brought the government into the 21st century. Or at least that was what we were told when he released his first Web video address as president-elect. The clip, [...]

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How China’s ‘50 Cent Army’ Could Wreck Web 2.0

January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Asia, China, Legal Issues, Politics, Security, Society, Standards, Trust, Web 2.0, Wisdom of Crowds, e-Democracy, transparency

Interesting article by Mike Elgan (Earthweb) on an effort by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the level and study the art of online guidance and actively use new technologies to increase the strength of positive propaganda”.
The article also introduced me to the concept of astroturfing which I [...]

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