Clearing the Cache: Serving Up a Bite-Sized White House
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, May 28 2010
- You could pay attention to what the White House was up to all week, or you can just catch the latest episode of "West Wing Week." Highlight's from this installment: President Obama says on a phone call, "the fact of the matter is, is that if there's something we can do better than BP we will do it," and an SBA official makes a "Shark Week" joke.
- Democrats turn YouCut on America Speaking Out, raising questions about whether the new GOP online platform is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
- The Huffington Post takes issue with TPM's new design.
- The State Department is looking for some help judging democracy videos.
- Google is introducing a way for folks to opt out of Analytics.
- 57% of Americans have Googled themselves.
- A litigant gets out of a contempt charge he brought on by telling his fans to email the judge.
- Mike Bloomberg hasn't tweeted since January.
- ABC Columbia reports, though with scant detail, that South Carolina emergency authorities are turning to social media.
- Is it a problem if news of soldiers' deaths pops up on Facebook before the military officially gives notices?
- Online politics hits New Brunswick.
- And with that, we'll see you Tuesday.
(With Micah Sifry)
