The White House blog
Tim Finin, 12:48pm 20 January 2009The White House blog went live today with a post by Macon Phillips, Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov.
“Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I’m Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog.
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This is an interesting, albeit minor, aspect of an historic event that everyone hopes will lead to a better world.
The feed is in an odd place, however. If you put the blog’s address into Google Reader, for example, it can’t find the feed, which is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog. Bloglines, however, does manage to find the feed given the Blog’s URL.
Ebiquity Blog
January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Interesting. Thanks for the feed.
Unfortunately, the feed also seems to be partial syndication. I don’t see the incentive here — we shouldn’t be expecting whitehouse.gov to monetize with content, or display ads. Should we?