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Show Notes:

• NYT Op-Ed: Search, but You May Not Find by: Adam Raff
• CNN: Cities embrace mobile apps, ‘Gov 2.0′ By John D. Sutter

Noah & Jason’s Top 10 Gov Tech Stories of the Year (in no particular order):

• Inaguration of geek Blackberry-weilding Preseident Barack Obama
• CDC promotion of H1N1 prevention techniques Flu.gov
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) aims for transparency with Recovery.gov
• Iran Election Aftermath Brodcast on Twitter
• TSA Continues as a new media leader – blog, manual leak, response to woman blogger
• Facebook – Sarah Palin, Secret Service finding Salahis
• The Net Neutrality debate
• WhiteHouse.gov to switch to an Open Source CMS
• NASA rocks out on social media – Tweetups, twitter accounts and other platforms
• Digital TV Transition

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Action item!

If the Comcast- NBC/Universal deal is approved what name would you give the new company?

Post your suggestion in the comments below!!! Winner can choose one of the following:

• USB Thumb Drive
• Selection of Stickers from local startups
• Secret random shwag

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Recommendations of the Week:

• Noah – John Hodgman’s new podcast Today in the Past. A page-a-day calendar without pages. [Link opens in iTunes]
• Jason – Onion Video – Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

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Tech Blab 6: Flu-Like Symptoms
Run time: 30:35

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Recommendations of the Week:

• Jason – Fail Blog
• Noah – Rocket Boom’s Know Your Meme web series

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Tech Blab 5: All Your Metadata Are Belong To Us
Run time: 30:31

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Recommendations of the Week:

• David – GovLuv.org
• Jason – Drop.io file sharing
• Noah – Put This On web series

Show notes:

Topic 1: Arizona ruling that metadata are public record

Topic 2: Twitter lists

• http://twitter.com
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355051,00.asp

Topic 3: House Ethics committee file-share leak

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103003749.html
• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/ethics-leak/

Tech Blab 4: Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington
Run time: 33:08

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Show Notes:

Greg Gershman

• @GregGersh
• http://shelrick.com/

Tech Blab discusses Net Neutrality:

 

• Net Neutrality FAQ: What’s in it for You – PC World
• U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight – WSJ
• Net neutrality’ would slow the flow – by Sen. John McCain

 

WhiteHouse.gov switches to Drupal:

• WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal – Personal Democracy Forum
• Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal – O’Reilly radar

Social Media Engagement by the Obama Administration:

• WhiteHouse.gov Breaks New Ground with Social, But… – Geoff Livingston

Recommendations of the Week:

• Jason - Morons With Signs
• Dave – Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor & Saul Singer
• Greg – Auto-Tune the News on YouTube
• Noah – TubeChop

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