Pundit: Congress Isn't Web 2.0, More Like Web 0.5
Oooo I nearly forgot to blog about my former editor Danny Glover's harsh remarks at Wednesday's Politics Online conference about congressional reluctance to embrace new technology platforms. His comments came at a session called "Open Source Government: Can Peer Production Create Better Public Policy?"
Glover, who now runs the Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv (an online video site with a conservative twist), said only a handful of the 535 members of Congress are engaged online, he said. They're "behind the curve" with respect to blogs, podcasts and video, Glover said. "They are still very much in the early adopter phase," he said. "Everyone else is in the Web 2.0 phase. Congress is maybe Web 0.5."
Johanna Shelton, who recently joined Google after a decade on Capitol Hill, had a rosier view. She said lawmakers are becoming more tech-savvy and their Web sites are improving. "Members intuitively understand that they need to use new technologies to get their message out," she said.
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