With Inauguration The White House Blog of President Barack Obama went online today promising that its new website would provide a “window for all Americans into the business of the government”.

Their initial new media efforts will center around three priorities:

Communication — Americans are eager for information about the state of the economy, national security and a host of other issues. This site will feature timely and in-depth content meant to keep everyone up-to-date and educated. Check out the briefing room, keep tabs on the blog (RSS feed) and take a moment to sign up for e-mail updates from the President and his administration so you can be sure to know about major announcements and decisions.

Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President’s executive orders and proclamations will be published for everyone to review, and that’s just the beginning of our efforts to provide a window for all Americans into the business of the government. You can also learn about some of the senior leadership in the new administration and about the President’s policy priorities.

Participation — President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he saw firsthand what people can do when they come together for a common cause. Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.

EOP – Blog Post – Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov

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Technorati’s new Tag Results Pages feature content from the “farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have tagged”.

As discovering and playing around I’ve just added a blurb about blogging to the “blogging” tag page.

Why did I do this?

Adding a blurb is a feature engaging users to comment about the given tag with Technorati’s intention to generate conversation, response about the tag.  Assuming the best case scenario this could result in a win-win situation for Technorati and me as the user providing user generated content (UGC): Technorati will get more free UGC in form of responses to my comment, I will get more traffic to my website from users curious who was behind the post…

Definitely worth to have a look at Technorati’s new Tag Pages which can be found here:

http://technorati.com/tag/