Daily Digest | A First Look at the New FinancialStability.gov

the editors | March 31, 2009 - 12:11pm | Email This!
  • A First Look at the New FinancialStability.gov FinancialStability.gov, the Treasury Department's clearinghouse for the Obama Administration's financial recovery efforts, went live just this morning. We have an early first look. The snapshot: the site provides a polished but accessible citizen-friendly interface for making sense of the complexities of executive branch efforts to unfreeze the credit market -- while at the same time upgrading the data streams that advocates use to watchdog aspects of the recovery process. Here's a quick first look at what's inside. Read more.
  • Clinton Announces Second Tech-Inspired Youth Summit Speaking to an audience at Monterrey, Mexico's TecMilenio University, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced plans for a second Alliance of Youth Movements summit, to be held in Mexico City in September. The first AYM, held at Columbia Law School this winter, was a Bush-era project that quickly came together out of some shared thinking between Facebook, the U.S. State Department, HowCast, and a few other tech companies. How supportive will the Obama administration be of these kinds of "public diplomacy 2.0" efforts? Read more.
  • Novell VP Dragoon Advocates for Open Source in Government Matthew Burton shares that Novell Vice President John Dragoon has joined Scott McNealy in endorsing government adoption of open source software. With the government spending so much in software annually, now may be the time for government to reconsider its reluctance to go open-source. Read more.
  • Democrats Waging War on the Urban Dictionary Front Not willing to let Michael Steele claim all the hip hop street cred, those web-savvy kids at the Democratic National Committee are today emailing around a link to the Urban Dictionary's new entry on "budgetish" -- the neologism that has come to mean (and least, in the hopes and prayers of the DNC) this: "Of or resembling a budget. Lacks specificity such as numbers and/or ideas. Usually encased in blue glossy folder and 19-pages, including cover pages and table of contents." Also, the DNC has got a new New Media director. Read more.

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