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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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from an Article by Marie Boran on Siliconrepublic.com
Given the current state of the economy, there is no better time than right now to take a serious look at Web 2.0 technologies, or the social web, and figure out how these tools can help us build and define brand Ireland. This was one of the messages [...]

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Interesting article on the Memphis based site commercialappeal.com
Apparently the director of police is using public funds to attempt sue and identify an anonymous blogger believed to be a Memphis police officer (or several officers)
Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical [...]

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Here is an overview of some research into blogging undertaken in January 2008 by BIGresearch in the US.
What’s A Blogger?
Bloggers are younger and higher percentages are Hispanic & African American than the general population. A higher percentage of Democrats than of Republicans are blogging.
Now that Blogging might better be called a market segment rather than [...]

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This from Micah L. Sifry of Techpresident blogging from the Politics Web 2.0 conference at the University of London, Royal Hollaway, here below are some excerpts from Micah’s notes on one of the first keynotes:
Helen Margetts, of the Oxford Internet Institute, is presenting on “Digital-era Governance: Peer production, Co-creation and the Future of Government.”
Her key [...]

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Interesting post by Jason Ryan on PSnetwork.org on the need for Public sector organisations (in New Zealand) to increase the rate at which they are adapting to changing cultural and technological conditions.
“The problem, as such, is not that public sector organizations are not adapting to the change; the fact that there is so much interest [...]

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Don Tapscott (one of the authors of Wikinomics) was invited by the Davos management to organise an impromptu meeting of business and government leaders and some leading academics and thinkers on the topic of rethinking democracy. The topic he chose was government 2.0 – how the new Web 2.0 might lead to new models of [...]

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Big Read Blog – National Endowment for the Arts literature director David Kipen blogs regularly about his experiences promoting the 2007 Big Read initiative.
Dipnote – This blog offers the public an alternative source to mainstream media for U.S. foreign policy information and the opportunity to discuss important foreign policy issues with senior State Department officials.
Eye [...]

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David Stephenson has published the content of a speech he gave to New Internet Web 2.0 conference on November 1, 2007
David outlines the possibilities more transparent government offers to the public and to business and gives some very good examples of several US agencies that have opened their data to the public using well documented [...]

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