Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face • Hacker News Board

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by vaksel » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

blogimus wrote: post #6

Whitehouse.gov also has a new robots.txt file ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt ) If you search google for 'whitehouse' and 'robots' then you can still see the cache of the robots.txt file of the Bush Administration ( http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tCfemw3M-aUJ:www.whiteho... )

good catch

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by DTrejo » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

It seems pretty slow - I guess that's a good sign (many people looking at it?)

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by jrnkntl » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 6:59 PM UTC

But why are they using some external commercial company for visitor analytics? (webtrendslive.com)

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by mechanical_fish » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:03 PM UTC

trickjarrett wrote: post #4

It's also built using jQuery as tweeted by jResig. I was hoping Obama would begin using twitter immediately after taking the Presidency. We'll see if the twitter account falls into the history books and is not utilized.

I think I'm prepared to forgive the President for not having the time to post on Twitter.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by trickjarrett » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:07 PM UTC

mechanical_fish wrote: post #14

trickjarrett wrote: post #4

It's also built using jQuery as tweeted by jResig. I was hoping Obama would begin using twitter immediately after taking the Presidency. We'll see if the twitter account falls into the history books and is not utilized.

I think I'm prepared to forgive the President for not having the time to post on Twitter.

Oh I'm not going to think less of him should the account not be used again.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by steveplace » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:09 PM UTC

trickjarrett wrote: post #4

It's also built using jQuery as tweeted by jResig. I was hoping Obama would begin using twitter immediately after taking the Presidency. We'll see if the twitter account falls into the history books and is not utilized.

according to @sacca he'll get back on. And by him I mean his PR machine.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by keyes » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:10 PM UTC

blogimus wrote: post #6

Whitehouse.gov also has a new robots.txt file ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt ) If you search google for 'whitehouse' and 'robots' then you can still see the cache of the robots.txt file of the Bush Administration ( http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tCfemw3M-aUJ:www.whiteho... )

All the URLs in the former robots.txt seem to end in "/text". It's likely that they just didn't want the text versions of the articles to be indexed.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by axod » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:12 PM UTC

bgutierrez wrote: post #8

Even better, it's valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehous...

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Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by TweedHeads » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:29 PM UTC

And so does http://whitehouse.net

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

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Post by run4yourlives » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:30 PM UTC

The President of the United States now has a blog.

Unbelievable only a year ago, really.