From North Texas Daily:
President Bush may be gone from the spotlight, but the government Web sites created by agencies during his administration are bringing attention to NT, where the dead sites will be archived in the university’s cyber cemetery.
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
NT to archive old Bush administration Web sites
President Obama Launches New Website – Recovery.Gov
From Free Government Information:
President Obama has launched a new website, Recovery.Gov that people can use to see how their tax money is being spent. He stated that it is “an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government.” As of now, there is not much on the website but be [...]
Gov 2.0 – What does it mean to the federal government?
From FutureFed – The Microsoft Federal Blog:
Amid the excitement and flurry surrounding a new Administration, federal agencies and workers must remember the call for transparency and accountability. To do so, they must understand and embrace the concept of Gov 2.0. Like Web 2.0, taking advantage of Internet technology and Web design, Gov. 2.0 will, according [...]
Columbia Journalism Review Special Feature – Transparency: The struggle to open up government
From the Columbia Journalism Review:
Stories and other material on government transparency from the Columbia Journalism Review, from the January/February print magazine with Web-only supplements.
Learning Lessons
From the Sunlight Foundation blog:
Earlier today [January 22], Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stated that, prior to consideration, the economic stimulus bill would be made available online for 4 days. This is clearly a lesson learned from the outrage that surrounded the cramming-down-the-throat strategy for the TARP bailout bill.
Bush v. FOIA
From the McClatchy Suits & Sentences blog:
Is it possible to prove how much the Bush administration impeded the Freedom of Information Act? Put another way: just how hostile was it?
Pretty darn hostile, a quick-and-dirty Suits & Sentences review shows. Consider: the Defense Department completely granted 61 percent of FOIA requests in Fiscal 1998. In Fiscal [...]
White House Web Site Now ‘Crawler’ Friendly
From the Center for Democracy & Technology:
The minute President Obama assumed his office, before he had even taken his oath, WhiteHouse.gov was updated to reflect the new executive. As expected, the new WhiteHouse.gov used some of the tools that were used online throughout the campaign. In addition, WhiteHouse.gov became drastically more accessible to search engines [...]
USA.gov Embraces RSS: Launches Breaking News Service
From Read Write Web:
If you want to stay current on the latest updates from U.S. government agencies, you can now find a central repository of RSS feeds with the latest breaking news from these agencies on the newly designed news.USA.gov, the U.S. government’s official online portal. The site now hosts a selection of RSS feeds [...]
New Federal Government Team Focuses on Innovation and IT
From Government Technology:
Along with new positions such as the nation’s first CTO, the Obama administration has created a new group, the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team.
According to a video recently posted on the Change.gov site (now http://www.whitehouse.gov following the inauguration), TIGR is dedicated to fostering innovation within government.
Eisenhower Library to Open 4 Million Pages of New Records
From KSAL News:
The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene is releasing about 4 million pages of documents for public research.
According to the organization, the newly released documents include correspondence between President Eisenhower and private citizens, records from the White House Social Office, the White House Telegraph Office, and from the papers of Sherman Adams, [...]