[IP] anyone know who built the new White House web site?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>
Date: January 20, 2009 5:46:50 PM EST
To: "dave@farber.net" <dave@farber.net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:   anyone know who built the new White House web  
site?

Dave:

A few things about whitehouse.gov that may be of interest to your list:

1. Macon Phillips, who wrote the first whitehouse.gov blog post today,  
is the first White House Director of New Media.  He led New Media for  
the transition, for change.gov, and was deeply involved with New Media  
during the campaign.

2. The copyright policy, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/,  
explains that government-produced materials are in the public domain.   
It continues the transition's use of a Creative Commons license,  
however, for third-party material posted to whitehouse.gov, such as  
citizen comments.  I'm pretty sure that is the first use of a Creative  
Commons license on whitehouse.gov.

3. For accessibility, http://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/  
explains a number of measures to make whitehouse.gov accessible,  
including the closed captioning for videos that was included in recent  
videos on change.gov.  As new features are rolled out on  
whitehouse.gov, comments are sought on ways to ensure accessibility.

4.  For privacy, http://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy/ mostly is the same  
as the change.gov privacy policy.  Concerning federal government  
guidelines on the use of persistent cookies, the privacy policy notes  
that a waiver has been issued by the Whte House Counsel's office to  
permit the use of a persistent cookie for videos that are visible on  
whitehouse.gov.  The site says that video providers may set a  
persistent cookie in order to maintain the integrity of video  
statistics.  The site also notes that users who do not wish to have  
the persistent cookie set generally have the option of downloading the  
video in an alternative format.

Best,

Peter




Prof. Peter P. Swire
C. William O'Neil Professor of Law
  Moritz College of Law
  The Ohio State University
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
(240) 994-4142, www.peterswire.net
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From: David Farber [dave@farber.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:45 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re:   anyone know who built the new White House web site?

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From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu>
Date: January 20, 2009 3:29:54 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] anyone know who built the new White House web site?

In case you haven't seen it:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/obama-renovates-whitehousegov/?hp


--
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm@uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org


On Jan 20, 2009, at 1:31 PM, David Farber wrote:

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