http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/22/new-white-house-blog-published-first-post/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/22/new-white-house-blog-published-first-post/comment-page-1/#comment-209212 Dan Keldsen Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:57:17 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=1528#comment-209212 Hear hear! We'll see how it all unfolds, witness the complete shutoff of Camp Obama twittering after Election Day, but assuming the premise holds true, it will interesting to see if "trickle down" works in weaving new media/social media/2.0 into the government. Having the appropriate tools to engage us common folk in "the democracy" as a whole, well, I don't think we're quite there yet. Threaded comments don't really scale well for discourse and debate when comments explode beyond tens to low hundreds. Hear hear! We'll see how it all unfolds, witness the complete shutoff of Camp Obama twittering after Election Day, but assuming the premise holds true, it will interesting to see if "trickle down" works in weaving new media/social media/2.0 into the government. Having the appropriate tools to engage us common folk in "the democracy" as a whole, well, I don't think we're quite there yet. Threaded comments don't really scale well for discourse and debate when comments explode beyond tens to low hundreds.

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