White House

Under First Open-Source Prez Obama, White House Adopts Drupal, but at What Cost?

Kit Eaton — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:52:16 -0400

What do the White House and FastCompany.com have in common? The both run on Web engine Drupal. The White House has just switched over. Obama loves some open-source, it seems.

Rumor Mill: Vegetables from the White House Garden to be Sold at DC Farmer's Market

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:50:55 -0400

A Better Way to Health Care Reform: Is There a Designer in the House?

Ravi Sawhney — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:34:40 -0400

As I watch the debate over health care reform, I've begun to see clearly how designers can create a solution that wouldn't be such a bitter pill for so many and would help quiet the level of disagreement currently being experienced by so many.

Here's how my plan would work.

What I Didn’t Get to Say to Michelle Obama (But Maybe My Message Still Got Through)

Tom Dair — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:10:53 -0400

Tom Dair with Richard Whitehall from Smart Design at the White House.

What Should I Tell Michelle Obama About Design?

Tom Dair — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:36:36 -0400

Obama Climate Change Report: The Outlook Is Dire, the Time to Innovate Is Now

Ariel Schwartz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:27:43 -0400

The Obama White House has released its first climate change report, and it doesn't say anything we don't already know. It says it, however, in stronger language than any presidency that came before, with statements like "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced" and "Thresholds will be crossed, leading to large changes in climate and ecosystem".

The Trouble With Friending the White House

Chris Dannen — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:34:35 -0400

In the great wired tradition of his campaign, President Obama has opened White House accounts on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr (which delivered this photo, an instant classic).

The Banality of Obama's "Cutting-Edge" Web Event

Chris Dannen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:39 -0400

President Obama has availed himself of almost every major medium in this month's PR blitz. 60 Minutes, Jay Leno, ESPN, CNN, primetime press conference, The New York Times. Now he's taken to the Web, keeping Americans apprised of his plans to stem the nation's leeward slide into insolvency. But as unusual as a presidential news conference might be on the Web, it achieved almost immediate banality.

Recreate the Obama White House Vegetable Garden--Online

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:16 -0400

We learned last week that the Obama's are working on a 1,100-square-foot White House vegetable garden to be cared for by local fifth graders and the first family.

Obama's High-Tech Presidency Tackles Low-Tech White House

Kit Eaton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:41:45 -0500

President Obama may have promised a new central role for science and technology during his inauguration, and his election campaign was the highest-tech yet seen...but on day one, the new administration's staff crashed headlong into a White House that is a technological simpleton.

Watching and Interacting at the Inauguration Viewing

David Smith — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:32 -0500

(written but somehow not posted the day after the election)

Government 2.0?

Ellen McGirt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:57:29 -0500

We thought this day would never come.

I cried in the voting booth yesterday. Like so many others, I had barely let myself believe that this could really happen--a woman and an African American, serious contenders on a national ticket.

President-elect Obama has run an extraordinary campaign, harnessing powerful social tools that came into widespread adoption just in time to help "a skinny guy with a funny name"(as he puts it) become a symbol of a truly democratic America, where anyone can in fact become President.

Government 2.0: Can President-Elect Obama Take What He's Learned On The Road to The Beltway?

Ellen McGirt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:55:56 -0500

We thought this day would never come.

I cried in the voting booth yesterday. Like so many others, I had barely let myself believe that this could really happen– a woman and an African American, serious contenders on a national ticket.

President-elect Obama has run an extraordinary campaign, harnessing powerful social tools that came into widespread adoption just in time to help, as he puts it, “a skinny guy with a funny name,” become a symbol of a truly democratic America, where anyone can, in fact, become President.

Work/Life: Scott McLellan's White House Tell-All...An Inspiration To Us All?

Tom Stern — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:22:36 -0400

In his new book “What Happened,” former White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan confesses to feeling “dismayed and disillusioned” by Washington politics, and the angry detractors have already begun to fire back at his version of events and how they must clearly be the work of a deranged mind.
Well, of course, it is only natural that people called on their carpet for their alleged errors would lash out their accuser. After all, if my wife decided to write a tell-all book about me, I would most likely rus

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