http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/google_on_washington/
This is a quick bit on what happens when technology runs head first into the immovable wall that is our Federal Government.
Interesting points from Google's Andrew McLaughlin as part of Obama's Technology Innovation and Government Reform group:
- "If the government wants to use a free online service like Flicker or Facebook or YouTube, does it have to go through a competitive bidding process? Even though these apps are free, they're part of a competitive market, so presumably the answer is 'Yes.'"
- "A White House channel on YouTube or a photo stream on Flickr or a page on Facebook can't carry advertising alongside it. Otherwise, it would put it in the position of implicitly endorsing the things that are being advertised. So it would have to come up with some sort of special arrangement with these Web 2.0 services."
- and this is the best one... As per the Presidential Records Act, all documentary materials related to the presidential office must be saved for posterity. "The problem is that everything must be kept on paper," McLaughlin says. "So, government web masters have to sit and print snapshots of their websites on paper."
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