via: Digg
Kottke.org has an article “The country’s new robots.txt file” that shows what will hopefully be the first of many, many changes to the way the President of the United States of America executes the duties of his office.
Basically, the Bush administration was blocking search engines from finding information on the official White House website (almost 2,400 individual blocking statements). As soon as the Obama administration changed the site, all of those restrictions have been removed. Hopefully by the end of Obama’s tenure he will not find it necessary to try so hard to hide information from the people he serves.
That Bush, he was a sneaky bastard. I’m glad he is gone. President Barack Obama is a smart guy. I read an article on Cnet that said he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source. He asked Sun Chairman, Scott McNeal, to write on paper the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source. Soon he will have every computer in the white house running Ubuntu!