The First E-President

Szentigrade writes "Popular Science is running a letter by Daniel Engber of the online Slate Magazine in which he offers the US Presidential nominees advice on using the full potential of the Internet upon their election into office. Some examples discussed in the letter include: a project already being developed that speeds up the patent approval process, a UK site that aims to improve government-citizen interactions, and perhaps most importantly, a call for government information to be 'presented in a standardized and widely used data format, like XML, so that anyone — in or out of government — could use and reconfigure it however they pleased.' Will 2009 be the first year of the E-President?"

Comments

NO! they'll block the tubes!

[plasmacutter]

All presidents love to throw their weight around, pushing their 'visions'.

They'll cram their visions down the tubes, and block enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material!

We don't have to worry about it this time around though.

Obama is for "change", He'll likely change the tubes to bigger tubes so he can send his visions into the tubes.

McCain is simply doing the same old policy that's already there, so his own visions as president would be very unlikely to clog the tubes.

For nader, he's against tubes spoiling our american green space, he'll puncture the tubes, drowning our urban areas in streaming videos. This is not all bad though, the spam will fall out of the tubes before it reaches our inboxes.