AMERICA AWAKENS IN 2009: OBAMA'S IMAGE FALLS
Posted on 10/25/2009 9:50:25 AM PDT by Gomez
A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze — you won't notice a thing.
The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for www.whitehouse.gov — meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
"We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site," White House new media director Macon Phillips told The Associated Press hours before the new site went live on Saturday. "This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it."
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Sounds like something Freepable :-)
Transparency
I’ll bet they don’t give trolls from FR authorization to commit in the SVN. A few little tweaks to the code, and you would see a really interesting Whitehouse web site.
It gives us something fun to contemplate, eh?
login: root
Password: *******
# cd /
# rm -R *
Just the thing to charm the pants off single-issue progressive Slashdot readers.
Lovely.
Now the “news” can change by whoever wants to change it.
Truth will be obscured by the “public”.
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