Comments on: WhiteHouse.gov: Glimmerings of a New Transparency http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/01/20/whitehousegov-glimmerings-of-a-new-transparency/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/01/20/whitehousegov-glimmerings-of-a-new-transparency/comment-page-1/#comment-2934 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:46:56 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1652#comment-2934 Oh, that Kottke is never giving his readers their money's worth of links! Reader to Philipp Lenssen's <a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-21-n75.html" rel="nofollow">blog post</a>: "It's understandable that the robots.txt of an 8-year-old site is longer than that of a 1-day-old site, and it's not as if '/secrets/top' or '/katrina/response/' were put in the robots file." Still, there is a story here -- UIUC researchers did find some funny changes (starting with the number of coalition of the willing countries), in a November 2008 research report titled <a href="http://www.clinecenter.uiuc.edu/airbrushing_history/" rel="nofollow">Airbrushing History, American Style</a>. Also, according to Ben Smith's reporting in the Politico, the White House will still be doing content filtering. I hate to be a killjoy-- but <a href="http://civilities.net/White_House_Web_Filtering" rel="nofollow">I'm curious why</a>. That at least deserves *some* echoes. Oh, that Kottke is never giving his readers their money’s worth of links! Reader to Philipp Lenssen’s blog post: “It’s understandable that the robots.txt of an 8-year-old site is longer than that of a 1-day-old site, and it’s not as if ‘/secrets/top’ or ‘/katrina/response/’ were put in the robots file.”

Still, there is a story here — UIUC researchers did find some funny changes (starting with the number of coalition of the willing countries), in a November 2008 research report titled Airbrushing History, American Style.

Also, according to Ben Smith’s reporting in the Politico, the White House will still be doing content filtering. I hate to be a killjoy– but I’m curious why. That at least deserves *some* echoes.

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