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Obama Launches Change.gov

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the transparency-in-government-would-be-great dept.

mallumax writes "Obama has launched Change.gov. According to the site 'Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. It also offers an opportunity to be heard about the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. The Obama Administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things.' The site is extensive and contains Obama's agenda for economy and education among many others. They first define the problem and then lay out the plan. Everything is in simple English without a trace of Washington-speak. The site also has details about the transition. According to many sources, Obama's transition efforts started months ago. The copyright for the content is held by 'Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization'."

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  1. Great! by damburger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now you can be ignored by politicians faster and more efficiently than ever before!

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    1. Re:Great! by composer777 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I agree. People should be able to post their comments to a publicly viewable forum so that an open discussion and debate can occur.

  2. Stresstest by Narpak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well posting this on slashdot should ensure that their servers get a proper stress-test.

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  3. Wow a President that plans ahead!!! by strangeattraction · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has been a long time since that has happend.

  4. Dear President Elect Obama by internerdj · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know you are new to politics so I thought I would let you know. Now that you have won, you can stop campaigning for about 3 years.

  5. South park by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    WHOO HOO! Change! We got change! Yes we can! F___ you, boss!

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  6. Privacy Policy by oneiros27 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, I tried e-mailing them yesterday to point out that their privacy policy looks to not match their actions (as they're linking to Google Analytics, so the cookies used to tracking people _are_ being shared with another website), and the e-mail address _on_their_privacy_ page bounced with an authentication error.

    Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:

    webmaster@ptt.gov
    Your message wasn't delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

    Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

    Diagnostic information for administrators:

    Generating server: ptt.gov

    webmaster@ptt.gov
    #550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required ##

    So I e-mailed postmaster@ptt.gov, and got:

    <postmaster@ptt.gov>: host mail-pls-smtp-02.ptt.gov[72.164.179.9] said: 550
            #5.1.0 Address rejected postmaster@ptt.gov (in reply to RCPT TO command)

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