Comments on: Change.gov is coming — and has Obama picked his CTO?

By: edhardy622

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By: Lisa_P

Lisa_P — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:20:57 +0000

Obama wants to know all about you if you plan to work in his Cabinet or staff. Makes sense, doesn’t it? If a person is going to hold a high-responsibility position in America’s federal government, it is in the best interests of the nation and its people that the employee meets the qualifications and not be a security risk. However, it seems to me that there are limits to what is reasonable. With as much information as Obama asks for in his seven-page, 63-question application, you’d think the administration would have enough to perform credit repair for everyone who applies. CNN leaked a copy of the questionnaire, which requires applicants not only to talk in detail about nearly everything they’ve done over the past 10 years or more, but also to do the same for their spouse. Here are a few of my favorite questions. I hope applicants do indeed get free credit repair as part of the deal… (1) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any posts or comments on blogs or other Web sites) you have authored, individually or with others. Please list all aliases or “handles” you have used to communicate over the Internet. (2) Electronic communications: If you have ever sent an electronic communication, including but not limited to an E-mail, text message or instant message, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe. (3) Please provide the URL address of any Web sites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, etc.) This only scratches the surface of how deep the application goes. If you’re going to serve under the “change” president and you don’t have all your ducks in a row, you’ll have to change that right away! Click to read more on Credit Repair.

By: Finding and defining Obama’s CTO should be higher priority » VentureBeat

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:24:04 +0000

[...] increasingly concerned about the administration’s apparent lack of focus right now on both filling the CTO position and explaining how it fits in with the rest of the government. Instead, news reports are all about [...]

By: Social media shows its election steel : mateoland.com

Social media shows its election steel : mateoland.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:59:26 +0000

[...] social media played in the election campaign and results. At VentureBeat, Eric Eldon provides an overview of performance stats from Facebook and MySpace, saying: “Indeed, the electoral importance of interactive online tools that helped people [...]

By: White House meets Web 2.0 « JSRCC Library Blog

White House meets Web 2.0 « JSRCC Library Blog — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:49:02 +0000

[...] http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/05/changegov-is-coming-and-has-obama-picked-his-cto/ [...]

By: Luc CAPO-CHICHI

Luc CAPO-CHICHI — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:47:26 +0000

Obama, you're now a president of USA and president of the world. You have a big and hevy work during four years. First you must deal amercan's problems such us economic, politic, social and accept somme good proposition. A good diplomacy is the best politic you must take with your partenors in Europe, Asia, Africa ,south America and Oriental continent. The Peace in this world will be your way during your four years. You can tall for the leadears in Africa to change their old and power politic wich is wait for Europe, America or Chine helping, tall them to work their self like you, like BARACK OBAMA to develop their country. It 's very ashame to see african leaders in this situation. I'm african. God blest you and give you a long life OBAMA!
Luc CAPO-CHICHI

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:33:46 +0000

Hi,

Exactly.

I wish more Americans were aware of how things happened after Tony Blair won his election in May 1997 -It's like seeing a train heading for a crash, but not being able to do anything!

The same type of promises and hopes of the people were piggy-backed, though hope always reigns supreme, and Obama has a sense of history and responsibility.

What might be more worrying for some in the Tech community would be how fair and objective Obama insists on being when it comes to which companies his working with, how many of those friends and advisors former companies will be getting an advantage, let alone anything.
With so many insiders....... did anyone invest in Haliburton in 2000?

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

By: Change.gov goes live; tell us who America’s CTO should be » VentureBeat

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:05 +0000

[...] More importantly, will the site — and the administration — really follow through on making The White House more open to citizen feedback? Doing so could be quite fascinating. Here’s one interesting but technocratic idea that VentureBeat reader “CharBax” recently suggested: [...]

By: heri

heri — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:10:36 +0000

I disagree.

Maybe you see what's happenning at popular crowd-sourced websites such as digg.com, with sensationalist stories; but downplaying a member's vote is not the way to go. People will feel alienated and won't participate.

What I've done (on http://techentreprise.com for instance) is a mix between crowd-source algorith + authorative editorial team. that is a core team which sets the original vision, but still accepts feedback and issues coming from all members.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:51:01 +0000

Could be. I was certainly guessing. It's just that Genachowski has executive experience — and he's been in charge of tech policy for Obama up to this point, including the idea of having a CTO! Remember what happened when Dick Cheney was in charge of finding a vice president for Bush

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:43:05 +0000

Interesting point about fine-tuning an automated way to pick out qualified people. That'd certainly be representative technocracy in action — not a pure democracy.

Can you shoot me an email? eric (at) venturebeat (dot) com

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:35:13 +0000

I'll venture to guess that the selection of Genachowski is more likely to help vet / scout out a potential national CTO… but you never know. looking forward to the launch of change.gov – to bad the site was announced before it was ready.

By: I’m Sorry Mr. Yang. Your Name Just Didn’t Come Up … | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:32:49 +0000

[...] then there’s this: Genachowski’s the guy who came up with the idea of cabinet-level CTO in the first place. Print [...]

By: MOSAIQ MEDIA Blog » Blog Archive » Obama 2.0 - Obama everywhere

MOSAIQ MEDIA Blog » Blog Archive » Obama 2.0 - Obama everywhere — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:59:49 +0000

[...] Obama Everywhere You name it – he does it: Obama twitter, bloggt, ist auf YouTube, genauso wie auf MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Faithbase und, und, und. Das Web 2.0 wird von Obama voll ausgenutzt und es gibt nahzu keinen Service, unter dem die “Marke” Obama nicht erreichbar ist. Erfolgsdaten zu Obama in MySpace und Facebook finden Sie hier. [...]

By: Charbax

Charbax — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:53:00 +0000

Although the number of registered users of http://barackobama.com is impressive, their multi-user blogging portal at http://my.barackobama.com is cool. I wonder how many of those hundreds of thousands of blog posts that were actually read or how much those user-generated blog posts actually mattered.

Putting some wiki, chat or user-generated blogging type blog comments on http://change.gov I think may be more of a gimmick then really useful and powerful.

I think they need to create an online congress where every citizen is a representative, can vote on all ideas, can suggest ideas, can amend ideas, express themselves in meaningful ways. Then all this needs to be done using clever algorithms to promote the good ideas automatically using clever new wisdom of the crowds algorithms. On the Internet, one vote shouldn't count as one vote, votes should count proportionally with the influence and activity each verified user has on the rest of the community. This way, an algorithm can automatically filter out the experts and the representatives.