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Obama Uses Digg-like Voting System for Administration Goals on Change.gov

Its "Open for Questions" tool allows visitors to submit a question for the transition team and, much like Digg, allows users to vote for other people's questions they find important or vote against questions they don't like. The most popular questions will be regularly answered by the Obama team.

Who is Obama's Choice for Cyber Czar?

If president-elect Barack Obama heeds the advice of a blue-ribbon IT security panel, he'll create a new White House office for cyberspace to be headed by an adviser charged with coordinating the computer security efforts of federal departments and agencies.

It's Official: Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of State

Obama named Clinton, a New York senator, as secretary of state and said Gates would remain as defense secretary, a post he has held for the past two years.

Obama's Tech Policy Group Announced

The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday announced which advisers will lead the team's efforts to develop technology policy for the Obama administration.

Traditional White House Radio Address Going Virtual in 2009

President-elect Barack Obama is taping Saturday's weekly Democratic address not just for listeners, but for YouTube viewers, his office said Friday. And he plans to keep videotaping the radio addresses after taking the oath of office on Jan. 20.

New Website to Post & Vote on Ideas for Obama's Chief Technology Officer

ObamaCTO.org, a website with no connection to the Obama transition team which launched this week, allows users to suggest and then vote on what the agenda should be for the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a cabinet-level post Obama has promised to create.

Obama's Agendas Now Missing from Change.gov

The "agenda" Web pages on Change.gov seem to have mysteriously disappeared on Sunday with the individual pages deleted entirely.

TMI: Web 2.0 Summit 2008; Al Gore Was There Promoting the Internet

"The Internet democratizes information," Gore says, arguing that Sen. Barack Obama's win had much to do with how his campaign made use of the Web.

Silicon Valley Expects Obama to be First "Tech President"

"Obama likes technology and part of the reason he executed so well is that he used technology so effectively," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley. "That makes him a tech president."
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