No time wasted for change to Whitehouse.gov

BetaNews ^ | Jan 20, 2009 | Angela Gunn

[Cicero]

While President Obama and several million of his fellow Americans were shivering on the National Mall this morning, Macon Phillips and his team were swapping out files and posting the all-new whitehouse.gov.

Phillips is the Director of New Media for the White House and had the signal honor of f1srt p0st!!!1 on the new White House blog.

Phillips reiterates several of the promises previously made by the new Administration concerning community, transparency and participation, including the vow to publish all non-emergency legislation to the web site for five days, so the public can read and comment before the President signs (or vetoes) it. The text of the proclamation of today's National Day Of Renewal and Reconciliation, which Obama signed moments after taking the Oath of Office, is also available for scrutiny.

[Cicero]

As the headline says, "No time wasted" for the Obama makeover.

[null and void]

ping

[rabscuttle385]

Tech ping!

[anniegetyourgun]

http://lifenews.com/nat4763.html

Here is their first priority for the nation.

[Congressman Billybob]

I was doing research on contents of Bush speeches last night and this morning. All of then have been stripped from the White House website. I can see stripping most of them, such as one to the National Potato Growers Convention.

But stripping out all of the States of the Union and two Inauguration Addresses not inserting at least a link to an outside source for the text of those? It's just pettiness.

John / Billybob

[sam_paine]

where’s the page already up bashing bush over katrina I saw yesterday?

[massgopguy]

“Zero to Five” early childhood learning? Won’t that interfere with Breast feeding?

[proud American in Canada]

But stripping out all of the States of the Union and two Inauguration Addresses not inserting at least a link to an outside source for the text of those? It's just pettiness.

I think he's a very small-minded man (his whole speech had veiled insults to GW and his administration) and will end up turning a lot of people off. At least I hope so.

[Calpernia]

Yup.

I tried to send a link to the President Bush’s E.O.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/404/?aspxerrorpath=/news/orders/default.aspx

They are all gone. Page not found.

[rjsimmon]

Won’t that interfere with Breast feeding?

Nope. Fits in nicely with the whole "feeding off of the government tit" ideology.

[Calpernia]

The Executive Orders too.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Cicero]

[ari-freedom]

so much for transparency

[stuartcr]

Should they waste time?

[Cicero]

Also from the article:

More change was made evident by kottke.org's comparison of the site's robots.txt files from yesterday (rather lengthy) and today (two lines). Sites use the robots.txt file to shoo search engines away from things the site's keeper does not wish to be seen.

[SERKIT]

The White House website took on the look and feel (nearly a cut-and-paste) of the ‘www.change.gov’ propaganda site. Try a word search for “pro-life” and see what you get....

[Calpernia]

I was avoiding entering through the splash. Thanks for the nightmare.

[Calpernia]

And with access to router line access codes we won’t even be able to navigate around the txt bots.

[Cicero]

Try “reproductive choice.”