I was amused today to read on MSNBC about some of the woes befalling the Obama team on their first few days in the White House. There are things you could expect about the transition to be difficult, like navigating the halls, finding your office, actually figuring out how you're going to make all this "change" you've been promising people for the past two years... (oh shit oh shit)
However I'm not sure that anyone was expecting one of those challenges to be the built in computer infrastructure. Here's an excertp from the article:
"WASHINGTON - If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.
What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
"It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.'"
Here's the whole article.
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