http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/25722/a_new_approach_to_open_government_push_it_out_of_the_website_business
Excerpt:
"The problem with that approach is that almost by definition the various institutions that together make up the federal government are never going to be as nimble and responsive as non-profits, companies, and hackers that operate outside government. Their role is to serve as the establishment. What the article by Princeton's Ed Felten and a team of researchers from the school's Center for Information Technology Policy proposes is that government entities focus on building the infrastructure to produce and distribute data, and then leave it to more capable others to create tools that make use of the it, including mashups, wikis, and visualizations.
There are are only so many hours of the day, even in DC, and the time and energy spent building public-facing websites could be poured into a more useful kind of online publishing -- making sure the data is clean, constant, and consistent."
Monday
TechPresident: A New Approach to Open Government: Push It Out of the Website Business
Tuesday
Alex Hammer: The Most Web 2.0 Savvy Politician?
Excerpt:"Not only is there more change, but the rate of change is increasing. Even five years ago, on the Internet, you could take a day off and not miss anything. Now you take 20 minutes off, and you're #100 in the comments. Little differences become magnified. You might be 2% more efficient, but 100% more successful."
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Monday
Who Barack Obama Subscribes to on Friendfeed
http://friendfeed.com/barackobama/subscriptions
Some of the top names I noticed:
Robert Scoble
michael arrington
Micah Sifry
Bret Taylor
dan farber
Kevin Rose
Louis Gray
Fred Wilson
mashable
Jason Calacanis
Loic Le Meur
Patrick Ruffini
Paul Buchheit
Yo, Barack ("Alex"rod, Plouffe, Hughes, etc. ) I trust this is just a big oversight!: http://friendfeed.com/alexhammer
Who loves ya baby?
(Hmm, Finn and Daou more reliable contacts??!?!)
