Some additional reading January 22nd from 00:43 to 10:09:
- Obama Will Get His Blackberry – Marc Ambinder – “President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package…. and Obama WILL be able to use it … still for routine and personal messages.”
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- Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology – washingtonpost.com – “One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.”