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Obama names tech execs to transition team
- gamache 18y agoJust think, had McCain won, we might have ended up with Carly Fiorina...
- biohacker42 18y agoSurely would have - shudder
- jim-greer 18y agoCool that someone from Launchbox is involved. Seems like Google.org hasn't done much yet given all the resources they have.
- jmtame 18y agoGetting rid of Ted Stevens for good is the first thing that should happen.
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- hugh 18y agoUmmm, how do you propose that the executive branch should "get rid of" a senator?
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoGuantanamo seems a pretty popular option these days...
- honeybee 18y agochange.gov is up, if not exactly pretty :-) (and i'm curious to see what the Obama administration will do with whitehouse.gov.)
- vaksel 18y agoi doubt he had any say in that. They probably decided on a "site to help open up the government" and then some IT guys were told to make it happen.
- yellowbkpk 18y agoAccording to the meta-data in the source of change.gov, this is the guy that wrote it: http://www.smartcard.gov/thurston_bio.cfm http://www.smartcard.gov/thurston_bio.cfm
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- foulmouthboy 18y agoJudging by her bio, she looks amazingly well qualified. I don't think that being a former VP at Goldman Sachs means it's "more of the same". If anything, when taken into context, it just means she'd understand the industry at a greater level, which would put her in a better position to help fix its problems. http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/user/3018/view http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/user/3018/view
- ig1 18y agoLooking at her linkedin profile it doesn't look like she's very "tech", she mainly has a background in strategy at non-profits. http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1729119 http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1729119
- fallentimes 18y agoWhere you happened to have worked doesn't dictate who you are.
- mynameishere 18y agoIt does dictate the membership of your address book--and for a member of a "transition team", that's fairly meaningful. I don't really care, as the pooch has already been screwed, but the rest of y'all should prepare to drop certain one-word slogans.
- fallentimes 18y agoWe really (or at least I) don't know enough about her to judge her...yet. Always ready to swear :).
- shimon 18y agoI'm very, very optimistic about signs like this. Effective use of Internet-based communication, organization, and collaboration tools appears to be something that, generally speaking, comes naturally to younger generations and doesn't come at all to older generations. Appointing a few key people who get it to powerful positions in government could go a very long way toward delivering, in government, some of the same productivity improvements and transparency that we've come to appreciate in tech companies.
- Darmani 18y agoI'm a little fearful of efficiency in government. I believe that, in most areas, government can never be as efficient as a free market. Making the government closer to a free-market efficiency just makes it harder to get to a fully-free market and makes it a lot easier for the government to grow in other areas. Rothbard went into a little more detail on this in a lengthy criticism of Friedman: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html
- curiousgeorge 18y agoHow do you get efficient outcomes in monopolistic markets without government involvement? Where substantively do you feel more efficient government is problematic?
- MikeCapone 18y agoMost monopolies are caused by government, though. Mostly through barriers to entry for competition..
- unalone 18y agoWas Microsoft caused by government? I thought it was because Gates convinced businessmen that using his solution and standardizing it would be the most efficient for the workplace. And it took the government stepping in to decentralize things.
- endlessvoid94 18y agoAccording to the source of the Change.gov page, it was generated using Microsoft Word. Granted, it's just a placeholder for the site, but still. I sure hope that isn't a sign of things to come.
- yellowbkpk 18y agoI think they're using it as a metaphor: Current administration = Word-generated page New administration = Web 2.0
- brandonkm 18y agoI'm genuinely curious to see how the Obama administration will use the web. If his campaign is any indication, the whitehouse tech game will no doubt be cutting edge.