Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Can Obama’s Online Hotline Deliver? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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Making pretty Web sites appears to be a core competency of the Obama Administration. Just as the president signed the economic stimulus bill, Recovery.gov went online to chronicle the spending of the $787 billion appropriated by the law.

On Day 1, the site doesn’t have that much information on it. There is a time line of what will happen with the law’s programs and an interactive map showing how many jobs the government estimates it will create or save in each state. But soon, the site promises, there will be information on where and how the funds are spent including evaluations of each program’s performance.

Can Obama’s Online Hotline Deliver? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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