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November 6, 2008 at 10:04pm
by thecodepounder The website of the Office of the President-Elect is online.
It really does kind of feel like a metaphorical “torch” is being passed, if you’ll excuse me for referencing the Inaugural Address of John Kennedy. What I mean is, Barack Obama will be the first President of the United States that is less than two decades older than me, and he may be the first U.S. President to really embrace technology, at least of the sort commonly associated with the Interthingy-age. That alone has significance to someone like me who “does computers” for a living (yeah, I know, but your average citizen doesn’t know what “software development” is (and isn’t), so it’s usually just easier to explain that I “do computers” and smile politely when they acknowledge the statement with a knowing look and tell me about the “seriously complicated” spreadsheet or PowerPoint they created at work last week… but I digress.)
Andy Ihnatko nailed it yesterday when he said (on Twitter),
I wonder what it will feel like to get news from my President via his Twitter feed?
How will it feel? Well, different — that much is certain.
nkb
UPDATE, 11-07-2008: Washington Times, Websites foretell a YouTube presidency:
The campaign won’t say whether the BarackTV and live-streamed events will continue after the inauguration, but all signs point to a revolutionized way of White House communication with America and the world.
“The most interesting thing to watch will be what do they and how do they reinvent the way a president speaks to the American people,” said Simon Rosenberg of the liberal think tank NDN and a veteran of the Clinton White House.
“There’s no doubt this is going to be more of a YouTube presidency than a fireside chat presidency,” he said. “President Obama will be reinventing the relationship between the president and the American people using these new tools.”
Awesome.
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