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The new whitehouse.gov site is crisp and user friendly and provides great potential for the new administration to continue the grassroots efforts that have gotten it so far. The blog is an excellent feature, but without comments it is nothing more than an rss-enabled news feed. To truly harness the power of public comment and debate and the networking aspects of the technology the administration needs to enable comments. Though drawbacks exist such as spam and the time needed to work with the comments the benefits i believe outweigh the drawbacks. Using the site as a social network could harness the power of the collaborative masses and make the whitehouse web site a useful community as opposed to simply an after thought with a nod to the collaborative. We can accept that there is a needed degree of moderation but truly the administration has the resources and the talent to manage this project and make this an amazing space...Not just for the public but for the administration to crowd source many of its ideas, focus groups, and other needed forms of public interaction.

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  • Andy Ellis
  • Jim Maritato
  • Matthew Liu
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    • An excellent idea
  • Jim Hanson
  • Isaac Peck
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    • participatory democracy or death!!!!!
  • Iman Brickus
  • Lawrence Grandpre
  • shae
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  • Michael Stark
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  • Kyle Whalen
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    • Do it! You know you wanna.
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  • Sharon Hartmann, Freehold, NJ
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  • Ron Johnson
  • cheryl r. washington
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    • I think that it will be hard for me and other people because we needed to have free services, so funding and all other importation things to help our community and bring back our community. There are alot o homeless people who don't have any help from and people are losing their jobs and houses. We need to think about the children and what's their needs.
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    • Stop Illegal from Accessing Social Security
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  • jackie siemers
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    • please leave the social security alone
  • jeanne
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    • hi president obama
  • Virginia M. Crowe
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    • Please President Obama do not sign this and give illegal people any more free rides, We that have worked for our childrens futures, our shelter and food do not want anymore hitchhikers! Paid for by our sweat and hardwork! Thank you I sincerely hope you do get this email and read it. I pray for your guidance and strength every day. I may disagree on a lot of issues, but I do believe you have peoples best interest at heart, also that you are a loving dedicated family man. God Bless and be with you and your family always.