WhiteHouse.gov

Drupal Moves into the White House

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:06:45 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Ashlee Vance
Drupal helps people create and manage their Web sites. And a new WhiteHouse.gov site has arrived that was built via the Drupal code. The White House shift to Drupal from a proprietary software package represented a serious seal of approval for open source software.

White House Denies Shunning YouTube

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:41:58 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Miguel Helft
The White House is denying that it has changed its policy on videos from YouTube, which is owned by Google, or other third parties. It hosted President Barack Obama's weekly radio and video address on WhiteHouse.gov, rather than embed a video from YouTube on its site as an experiment, said a White House spokesman.

Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps

Stevie Converse — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:18:52 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Jose Antonio Vargas
The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government. WhiteHouse.gov, envisioned as the primary vehicle for President Obama to communicate with the online masses, has been overwhelmed by challenges that staffers did not foresee and technological problems they have yet to solve.