The entire Internet marketing industry has observed how efficiently Barack Obama has used the Internet and web 2.0 tools to promote himself during the pre-election period and it was probably one of the key differentiating factors between the two candidates.
And now that Obama has moved on from being the President-elect to "Mr. President", he carries through his love for the technology. As a first step, WhiteHouse.gov now gets a brand new blog and there is also a revamp of the website.
The new president pledges to have an extremely transparent and accountable administration and a blog is definitely a great step ahead towards this. However, the comment option is disabled in the blog which would definitely raise an eyebrow or two when we talk of transparency. It is likely that as the blog is brand new they are yet to set up the comment moderation team and it is definitely justified to keep the comment feature disabled till then. Also, surprisingly there is no RSS button for the blog.
It is definitely nice to see technology becoming an increasing important aspect of the Obama administration and their attempts to provide a window to the White House through this website and blog for the common Americans.
Welcome President Barack Obama !