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Seems like, if the President were interested in "now", they would have been working on this for going on 3.5 years, and would be actually publishing some APIs.
by chernevik 14y ago
Seems like, if the President were interested in "now", they would have been working on this for going on 3.5 years, and would be actually publishing some APIs.
- chc 14y agoI'm going to my apartment now. 3.5 years ago I would not have been going there. Now and 3.5 years ago are not the same thing. He's interested in doing things now, and since neither he nor I can turn back the clock, that's as good as either of us can do.
- chernevik 14y agoJust like he's just getting around to planning his re-election campaign "now". If the President of the United States wants to be impressive -- and I don't know that APIs are where one would start -- he can do better than make announcements.
- jpendry 14y agoThey were putting out ads against Romney at the beginning of the Republican nominee campaign.
- rscale 14y agoFYI data.gov launched in May 2009 after being announced by Obama's CIO in March 2009. This isn't a new effort, it's the continuation of ongoing efforts. For example: http://ideascale.com/userimages/sub-1/736312/ConOpsFinal.pdf http://ideascale.com/userimages/sub-1/736312/ConOpsFinal.pdf is a document (Dec 2009) documenting the vision for Data.gov, and http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/mem... is a memoranda from 2009 that first started requiring the online sharing of major datasets.