Jamey_Heary: He can start pop trends perhaps, but I for one am not going to look to the President's use of tech to see what I should be doing. Remember, guys, they are thinking of taking away his BlackBerry due to security reasons.

Jeff_Doyle: The issue isn't only security, but the fact that when he's President we, the public, own what comes over his BlackBerry and e-mail.

Jamey_Heary: I'm all for the government using the Internet more, but that is different from saying it will innovate it. The government should use the technology but stay away from trying to influence its innovation. That usually adds bias to the system (like ethanol subsidies have, for example. That is a unviable solution). If the government starts picking technologies then it will bias them just like it did with bio fuels.

Matthew_Nickash: The White House is also famous for it's archiving disasters.

Dan_Tynan: Remember 5 million missing e-mails? That's what I want to talk about.