Barack Obama likes blogs and wikis too

Barack Obama has announced is technology vision. It's a PDF document and fortunately not a very long one. In addition to all the usual stuff like enacting net neutrality laws, speeding up broadband deployment, improving math and science education and letting in more foreign tech workers, he also talks about wikis and blogs.

He'd like to employ a chief technology officer for the country (now that's new!) who's responsibility will be to make government more transparent and visible using the best technology in the market. This means live streaming of executive branch government meetings, public wikis through which information can be shared between government employees and the public and blogs for communication as well. Nice ideas, I wonder if they will ever get implemented though. Is government ready for openness? Visit News.com for more on the story and hop over to ObamaForTechnology.