As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET, Whitehouse.gov, the official Website of the President switched over to a new design. There are links to Obama’s Agenda and a Briefing Room where citizens will be able to find Obama’s weekly Web video address, appointments and nominations, executive orders, and slideshows.
And, of course, there is a blog (without comments, though—understandable given all the trolls and spammers, but it seems like some kind of tiered community moderation could work here). The first blog post, written by the White House director of New Media, Macon Phillips is titled: “Change has come to Whitehouse.gov.” The theme of the post is transparency:
One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.
Hopefully, the administration will continue some of the experiments with citizen participation which it tried on Change.gov, its transition Website. Whitehouse.gov certainly has the same look and feel.
we saw the change as it was happening when we checked it from our smartphone.
Check out this pic of the media waiting all night for this one moment
http://www.flic...899794/sizes/l/
After a quick review of the site the only thing I can say is Great Job. It looks great.
This whole thing is foolishness to say the least this kind of thing -giving money away to the wrong people -didnt work with the depression era and it will not work now since all it does is put a larger burden on your great great grand children the only ones to benefit are the rich, and those who like Peloshi have no morals at all THIS COUNTRY WAS STARTED ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPALS AND NOW WE HAVE AN ANTICHRIST IN THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT IF ABE LINCOLN WERE ALIVE HE WOULD PROBABLY TAKE OBAMA TO THE FORD THEATER AND TELL HIM TO TAKE HIS PLACE!The problem is that allof the democrats were in charge for the last two years and this is the mess that THEY got us into no one else is responsible!~! Mr Bush could not put a bill forward only suggest or veto and those who were in charge went along with his agenda! So you democrats are solely responsible! and to give millions to the rich you should be sent to prison!
Some may remember that other republican mental giant, Spiro Agnew, who called his critics “Nattering Nabobs of Negativity.” Perhaps the republicans, sorta like Pogo, have met the enemy and they are Rush! Welcome to the real world boys. Rush can’t be all wrong can he?
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Reverend – I often find it incredible that anyone can make propose that a given deceased person would act in a certain way, given the circumstance. To state that Abe Lincoln would cause our current President to sit in his place (and presumably be killed) is not only unfounded (i.e. one cannot state categorically that Abe would indeed insist on such a thing) but indicates that the good Reverend is hypocritical in calling for the assasination of another human being. Certainly one has the right to debate, to quarrel, to discuss matters where we differ, but to push an agenda of hate and destruction sheds a ghastly shadow on those of your party who are less inclined to speak as you do. To proclaim a man who’s Christian (Obama is United Church of Christ, so unless you’re advocating that that denomination is not Christian, you’re out of line) as the AntiChrist is emotionally biased and again bodes ill for your own denomination. Obama even disavowed being part of his old church where the minister got out of line (along the same lines as you!), so I applaud that act.
As for America being founded on Christian values, i agere that our value system is based upon the views of the founding fathers, but to push the agend that America must be, therefore, primarily Christian is, in my view, anti-American and against the Constitution, which espouses that all humans are equal, have religious freedom (not allowing men to belong to those religions which are sanctioned by the Christian right, especially your kind of right).
Finally, it is clearly a whiny plea on your part to cast blame away from the Republican party in terms of the economy. Speaking only of those who speak loudest, and in the most extreme of views from the right, it seems that your frustration over not having held the power reins has now caused you to spin any act by the President as evil, and anything going on wrong now as totally of his doing. I’m surprised when others again present pseudo-facts not in evidence, such as “If McCain were President, such-n-such would not have happened”. No one can make that prediction and prove it, so the naysayers of Obama sing it loud because there’s no way to disprove their claim. President Bush did some good things, but the people have spoken via their votes and a new person has the reins. Your frustration should be channeled toward positive action, not hateful vitriole. I respect and fight for your right to speak as you choose, but I defend the President’s current action and hope that you can acknowledge that
Smooth transition. Looks neat!!!
Old VS NEW pages :
http://www.gaby...gia-old-vs-new/
You dumb fuck : Do you really thing the former white house site would have ads (”Dick Cheney Hunt Club” stickers) on it? THINK, stupid motherfucking froggy !!!
Man, idiots should really check themselves before they go slinging insults. The second page is the old site; the third is a satire page that you apparently have no clue exists.
You should consider yourself all the things you said.
What a doofus!
Matc b : you stupid bitch, the second picture was added after my insults (see ? they are needed sometimes). if you like gabyu so much to defend him like that, why don’t you take his dick and blow it, you pathetic retard ?
loser
Srsly. Who would believe that was the old site?
Nice
It always amazes me how seemless Obama’s team is able to merge Social Media, Public Relations and basic operations to his agenda. Everything works, pretty much, smoothly.
And it’s great.
Obama FTW!
Congratulations America !
Can’t seem to get the video rss feed to work – but otherwise a great start
OMG, there’s a YouTube link on a government site! Hooray!
Sweet our government has a blog
!
This guy is serious about teh Intarwebz.
Please post the text of the poem — it was a great poem!
Very cool.
Looks like they’re pretty busy there now… within 20sec. of checking out the site, I hit a bad link and found the official white house 404 –
http://i43.tiny....com/slh0mr.png
The best thing coming for America in the next few months is the refreshed branding/presentation and direct communication of the government. Seeing is believing.
Amazing emotions stirring around in Austin, TX today, looking forward to a new era.
Actually, the best thing would be war-crimes prosecutions of Bush, Cheney and their cronies, but I’ll take the nice website, too.
Thiscomment is so stupid. Shows that some idiots will support other stupid individuals.
Just “WHO” do ya’ll think is paying for this website???
Tax $$$$’s
President Obama gave a great speech. He was very inspirational. History will show him as one of our greatest Presidents.
Under his administration science and technology will flourish.
That’s all he can do…talk. Barry is in way over his head. And he’s begining to realize it I believe. Most who voted for him had no idea what he stood for. As for prosecuting Bush and Cheney…get real you pathetic idiot. What would the charges be? And how is history going to show him to be a great President?!?!? He hasn’t even done anything! He’s shown how much of a Socialist he is; he’s nominated tax cheats and liars to his cabinet, and he can read a teleprompter. Wow…what a guy.
your assuming there will be a America left after obama is done wit us.
All Hail the new Hugo Chavis
Seems to be quite a few amateur coding errors on the site…even the rss xml is incomplete.
Yes we can…
haha! i noticed that too!
BestJobsOnline
http://tinyurl.com/7uj5ay
too bad – I don’t see a way to post comments there. Where’s the two-way communication?
Wow, the redesign looks good and it’s written in asp.net. I wonder how they got the url to look so cleanly… is this ASP.NET MVC?
It’s easy to do with PHP too.
The website is not very complicate, the rewrite rule must not be very complicated too.
Nice website by the way ^^
Interesting indeed. I sure hope he delivers and makes us all happy. That’s the real joy of the new face. With the support he has received from most Americans and people all over the world, I sure hope he delivers.
Many people say Barack Obama will do well. I wish him well. But he can’t do it alone. With the support of those in the right places and that of the entire people, he will do well.
When do we see a new http://whitehouse.org?
This is just great…..
For the inauguration day, trutoon has a damn good avatar featuring you and Obama. Check it out at http://www.trutoon.com
You can post your avatar with Obama as profile pictures etc.
If he wants to focus on transparency, maybe he could start by telling us who actually donated to his campaign that accepted credit cards from anywhere and everywhere?
“it seems like some kind of tiered community moderation could work here”
Yeah, the one at Digg, where all the negative comments about Obama get dugg down. Who wants to hear those who have another point of view anyway?
“Hopefully, the administration will continue some of the experiments with citizen participation which it tried on Change.gov, its transition Website.”
You might want to see my discussion of those scams here:
http://24ahead....rack-obama-scam
“OMG, there’s a YouTube link on a government site!”
What page is that on? Why is a government entity favoring one private company over others? Is Youtube going to pay for such a valuable link? Is there a nofollow tag on the link?
New media posers can spout all the trendy rhetoric they want — but investing the resources to keep your web site up to date is a sure sign that you’re serious about your online efforts.
The instant switchover of WhiteHouse.gov sends a clear and unmistakable message: Obama is serious about harnessing the Internet as a tool for governance.
It’s a very exciting time on some levels because of our new president, but deeper down I know that nothing will change for the issues I care about.
As long as Geithner, Summers, Bernanke, and Kashkari are running these god-forsaken bailouts, the taxpayer and his children and grandchildren will continue to suffer.
Who in the heck do we think is going to be paying back all these huge funds we are currently and will continue to be borrowing?
Our children and granchildren of course. We are spending borrowed money that belongs to them and wasting it on saving a bunch of over-leveraged banks whose balance sheets are dead zones of toxicity.
This money does not belong to us and yet we are spending as though we just won the Mega Lotto. Meanwhile, tick tock goes the debt clock, racing ever higher each and every minute of every day.
The bailouts must stop and our fellow taxpayers must be awoken to the grand fleecing that is taking place. And they must understand that to saddle our future generations with these debts is tyranny.
When they are old enough to understand, they will never forgive us as they are forced to monetize their way into fiscal oblivion.
Anyone else here on this board feel the same as I do about these issues?
thanks, DB
“This is what we do all day every day at DailyBail.com. All the bailout news and information scoured from across the web and presented to our readers in 1 place every day. Baiout news links updated all day long. Waking up America one taxpayer at a time. “
This is a blog, not a board. I hate the bailouts too, but at least customize your spam.
President Obama gave a great speech. I have no doubt he will be one of our greatest Presidents.
I also think science and technology will flourish under his administration.
excellent post. thanks for pointing this out. i wrote a related post on this http://cli.gs/Vh0qGW
and now, to celebrate the inauguration of a blog (and a president) – http://web-poet...0/inauguration/
felicidades america .el mundo confia en este nuevo precidente
I’d like to point out that the new site passes validation
http://tinyurl.com/8cnmda
Old vs. New Sites http://admorale...signs-compared/
I took some screenshots before Obama’s version of the site went up.
Go Obama, revolutionize Web 3.0!
On the issue of no comments and comment moderation, I wonder if the White House deleting comments might bring up some first amendment issues.
My inclination is no — the white house homepage isn’t a public forum — but deleting certain types of comments (i.e., moderating them) sounds an awful lot like content discrimination, which the federal government isn’t allowed to engage in.
Perhaps comments aren’t there just to keep from having to deal with these sorts of questions.
I think you’re right. Was reading a Wired article earlier talking about how comments were probably going to be impossible for the White House blog precisely because of moderation being technically the same as curtailing free speech.
Read something about how there might be something coming where people can write in with their opinions on new pieces of legislation and that there would be some sort of feedback, but not sure how that would work.
In terms of his videos being hosted on YouTube, I’m not sure about how proper or not that is. Hopefully he’s cleared it with his counsel.
Wow! Who would have imagined, just a few years ago, the White House would have had an official blog?! I’m quite impressed.
brtedi
Govt. is COOL Again! Thanks Prez Barack.
Disappointing to see WhiteHouse.gov written in ASP.net after both BarackObama.com and Change.gov were on the open source LAMP stack.
Graphic Design Team? {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/6BleEnUklw_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Graphic Design Team? ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/lFXfhsCBub”}}}
@Sean
I think it is Blue State Digital (bluestatedigital.com)
Not bad, hopefully his change will be for the better. We’ll see the results in a couple years.
This is great! We need to keep in touch with our leaders and they with us! Thank you for the opportunity. Donna
I previously used the excellent White House site to obtain full texts of speeches, photographs and information related to events in Iraq and Afghanistan with free use photos for blog use. It was a great source for info on Darfur and US aid to Africa for HIV/AIDS and malaria remediation. The current site is a poor relation to the Obama election site and looks like a blogger website compared to the previous WH site, not an information rich government info source. Will the previous records, text and photos be archived and available as per standard online ethics protocol? There should be a link on the new site to reach archived materials, particularly since they are of a historical nature. At this point it reminds me of the way the new Pharaoh would have any references to the old pharaoh he vanquished chiseled off the steles. Ha!
I noticed that links to pre-inauguration news stories, and executive orders, etc. were gone. Read up on MiniTrue!
Looks great…nice to have a tech savvy president for a change!
So tech-savvy that he wants to do away with space weapons…real good Barry. That way Iran, N Korea, Russia, China, etc can put all kinds of weaponry up there.
In reality this is what I wanted. This is great! We need to keep in touch with our leaders and they with us! Thank you for the opportunity.
Sami
who cares? – the only change I want from Obama is for him to get on his knees and shine my shoes!
Mr President, God Bless you and your family.
I will love to congratulate you in person.
Reyna Carrasco,
proud citizen
Gosh…I feel so warm and cozy inside
In regards to the banking fiasco, how about a moratorium on mortgages for approximately 6 months or until the banking situation is straighten out. That would help homeowners tremendously if they didn’t have to pay mortgages, including myself.
then just to be fair you employer ( assuming you work ) should stop paying you for what ever k you do.
Gas prices have gone up 40 cents ,demand is still low isthe speculators or some other greedy group .Please fix this really hurts recovery for no good reason .God bless yoy and your family and protect you.I’m with you all the way.