This isn't your father's White House. The Obama administration's communication team - as I write this post - is live-blogging a speech the President is giving in Florida today on the economy.
This is a big deal. The new administration, unsurprisingly given its history, is slowly opening up the White House to the new world of media. It's not that they don't get it. They do. It's just hard to turn around a giant institution like the government. But slowly, it's happening. Posting the weekly addresses and more on YouTube, inviting The Huffington Post to ask a press conference question (a first, which Obama did last night) and now live-blogging are all baby steps in the right direction.
I wonder if the White House will revive Obama's old Twitter account next.
