Some more background on how change.gov was created
Submitted by jrjacobs on Sat, 2009-01-03 13:30.
Dorobek Insider has some additional background on the making of change.gov. 2 things of interest: 1) change.gov's use of Google moderator, a 3rd party app, which falls under google's privacy policy rather than the federal government requirements under the Privacy Act of 1974; and 2) both sides of the political debate seem to be trying to figure out how and why GSA set up change.gov, including submitting FOIA requests.
Team Obama’s Change.gov — abuzz about how it was created — and how difficult change in government is
[thanks for the heads-up Peggy Garvin!]
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GSA and the change.gov delegation request
The hooptedoodle by Malkin and others over the delegation of change.gov from GSA to the Presidential Transition Team (PTT) is much ado about nothing. The request didn't meet the first level of approval criteria. If you are, for example, the Dept. of Transportation creating a new web site or some local government wanting to be a .gov, you have to be more specific than a generic name like change. So, the initial request was rejected.
It turns out the POTUS and the P-ElectOTUS get higher priority than the average DoT branch chief, so when the request was escalated, the name was granted.
Definitely a slow news day kind of story ...
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