Source: ecommercetimes
By ECT News Staff
The Obama techies had their fingers on the switch on Tuesday, and at precisely 12:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, they threw it. The Bush administration's WhiteHouse.gov underwent a Cinderella-like transformation and joined the Web 2.0 era.
There's a White House blog now, if you can imagine that, and a page that will host video of the president's weekly address to the nation. And you can sign up to get e-mail alerts. Those things are all a step up from the static old Whitehouse.gov, but the most substantial change is the addition of a page that will display new legislation awaiting the president's signature. Citizens will get to review and comment on pending laws for five days before Obama puts ink to paper.
The practice, which will be followed for all nonemergency legislation, reflects the new administration's faith in the wisdom of the crowd. It will be interesting to see whether the crowd influences the president to rethink his stance on any measure. Should that occur, it would amount to something like open source 
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