Hillary Clinton would have a government blogging team

January 9, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | Filed Under News, Politics

During her closing campaign rally in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton spoke of the need for greater government transparency, fully embracing the Internet and blogging.

“I want to put everything on the Internet! I want you to see the budget of every agency. I want you to track everything that goes on in your government — you pay for it, you should know about it!” she said.

And of blogging?

“We should even have a government blogging team where people in the agencies are constantly telling all of you, the taxpayers, the citizens of America, everything that’s going on so that you have up-to-the-minute information about what your government is doing, so that you too can be informed, and hold the government accountable.”

I’m not an American citizen, but I’m not sure that I’d want the British Government to be “constantly” blogging about what’s going on. Transparency is one thing, but blogging isn’t a catchall solution to… well, most things.

Nice bit of lingo, though. Apparently, she’s also now embracing Facebook.

(Via WIRED)

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About the author: Andy Merrett has worked in a variety of commercial and not-for-profit organisations in both administrative and technical roles, including web and database development, systems analysis and programming. He is now a full-time professional blogger, writing on a variety of subjects including consumer technology, the Internet, music, and society. He currently works on a number of Shiny Media titles including Tech Digest, HDTVUK, and iPhonic, and other projects including Piano & Synth and Family Relationships. He is a prolific Facebook user. Andy lives in London, England.

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Lars Koudal on January 10th, 2008 1:19 pm

I agree with your sentiment about too open government, and would rather have them spending the time on spending the money properly instead.

However, I am glad to see that the potential next president of the USA will have more than a fleeting knowledge of what the internet and can do.

I recently read an article in TIME Magazine about the current president of the USSR (or whatever its called now), Vladimir Putin, who has never sent an e-mail in his life.

In my opinion it does not make him any less of a great leader, but it is nice to see that the new world leaders that are emerging embrace the fact that technology opens up for new use in every level of life.
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