Another noteworthy Atlantic article on Obama, this time on his plans to use the web and technology in governing:
What Obama seems to promise is, at its outer limits, a participatory democracy in which the opportunities for participation have been radically expanded. He proposes creating a public, Google-like database of every federal dollar spent. He aims to post every piece of non-emergency legislation online for five days before he signs it so that Americans can comment. A White House blog-also with comments-would be a near certainty. Overseeing this new apparatus would be a chief technology officer.
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