The New White House Online

At Native, we do like to note when current affairs and news intersect with online media.

The site Whitehouse.gov has just relaunched for the new US administration. We’ll be looking particularly at their blog as well as Barack Obama on Twitter and any other officially-sanctioned tools and sites, to see how the US government are embracing them.

If this flood of US news is getting too much, the Kazakh prime minister has not only started a blog but also ordered his ministers to start their own blogs.

Comments

  1. It’s a really interesting development, and they’ve proposed a raft of changes to government transparency.

    They don’t, however, allow comments on their blog, but that hasn’t stopped some people using Diigo to have a discussion on the page.