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Obama Blogs? President-Elect Launches Web Site, Embraces Internet

Explore the concept of a 'wired presidency' as Obama merges technology and governance in his groundbreaking administration.

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After running the most technology-dominated presidential campaign in history, it's only logical that Obama would keep the trend going into his new administration. And by all accounts, he has every intention of doing so: The Washington Postreports that the president-elect and his transition team are gearing up (pun fully intended) to "create the first truly 'wired' presidency." So far the major cyber-moves include consolidating the list of over 10 million supporter e-mail addresses gathered during the campaign, planning the transition of Obama's 95-person "new media" campaign staff into an expanded White House operation, and biggest and flashiest of all, the launch of the president-to-be's official Web site, change.gov. It's self-billed as "your source for the latest news, events and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama administration," and so far it contains a forum to share your election day stories, a newsfeed, and lo and ...

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