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Change came to the virtual White House as well as the physical one yesterday – WhiteHouse.gov has re-launched in true Obama fashion by featuring a blog as its centerpiece and promises to publish legislation and executive orders online for the public to review. I have some commentary on the role of the WH.gov website as a civic instrument<\/a> over at metaBLOG and defend it from critiques<\/a> that it isn’t “open” enough (by not allowing comments, etc). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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