Friday, January 23, 2009

New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages

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'It's kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,' an Obama aide says

What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.



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4 comments:

  1. SunnyJanuary 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    Hope you have a nice weekend, Chimp :)

    What? The White House does'nt have "instant messaging?!"

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  2. jadedjJanuary 23, 2009 at 8:20 PM

    To state the obvious, obviously, it's a security thing, I think. And, as an increasingly aging old dinosaur, I kind of liked Atari...oh, 21st Century, that's right...I keep forgetting.

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  3. intelliwenchJanuary 23, 2009 at 9:41 PM

    But jadedj -- they weren't expecting to find Tandy 2000s in the Oval Office!

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  4. ChimpJanuary 24, 2009 at 6:56 AM

    But the White House had "The Google" as George used to claim.

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