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The First E-President

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-not-ted-stevens dept.

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?"

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  1. Not if McCain wins! by russlar · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's just starting to learn to use "the Google". And YouTube? He thinks the internet is just a big truck you dump everything on!

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  2. Re:can they use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think it is time that we ask both major Presidential candidates to submit code samples. Bonus points will be awarded if they submit the code in Perl, Assembly, or FORTRAN.

  3. "Will 2009 be the first year of the E-President?" by realmolo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the "E" stands for "ebony", then yeah, probably.

  4. X marks the spot by Zouden · · Score: 4, Funny

    The government has a problem giving information to the people, so it decides to use XML... now it has two problems.

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    1. Re:X marks the spot by Suhas · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't remember where I read it but....
      XML is like violence, if it doesn't work, use more.

  5. Re:can they use? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it is time that we ask both major Presidential candidates to submit code samples. Bonus points will be awarded if they submit the code in Perl, Assembly, or FORTRAN.

    Lets be fair to both candidates. Switch settings for a bombe should be acceptable.

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  6. Internet Secretary by Devil's+BSD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they'll even appoint a Secretary of the Internet!

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  7. Will 2009 be the first year of the E-President? by greenguy · · Score: 1, Funny

    No.

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  8. Re:can they use? by pushing-robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're voting for Obama, not McCain?

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