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Government Web Sites Are Not for the Incumbents

Hal Plotkin has a column pointing out a severe deficiency in how the U.S. government handles web sites - they are often designed more to promote current office-holders than to conduct governmental affairs. The practice of using official resources for partisan political purposes is not new - the big rush actually hit about 3-4 years ago - but we could make such better use of the web, if only...

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  1. Double standard? by FTL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shame on any politician for putting a picture of himself/herself/itself on web pages his/her/its department creates. Oh gosh, would you look at that, the author's placed a picture of himself at the bottom of his article.

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