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1 Comment@nasawatch: Hey @whitehouseostp - wow ... 4 tweets since April. Not too good for a WH that prides itself on being uber tech savvy and cool. Fail.
- 7 Feb: NASA Commercial Crew Forum [New]
- 7 Feb: NASA Talk Features Pioneer Researcher and Inventor [New]
- 8-9 Feb: NASA and Industry Join Forces for Virginia Aerospace Day [New]
- 9 Feb: NASA International Space Station Advisory Committee Meeting
- 9 Feb: NASA Hosts Special Event With Recent Space Station Residents [New]
- 10 Feb: Media Invited to see Space Hardware Bound for Japan [New]
- 10-11 Feb: Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting
- 11 Feb: NASA Astronaut to Honor Black History at Virginia Air and Space Center [New]
- 13 Feb: ESA Briefing on New Results from Planck Mission
- 14 Feb: Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent International Space Station Mission
- 14 Feb: NASA Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan
- 15 Feb: STA reception with Mike Coats
- 15-16 Feb: 15th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
- 21 Feb: ISU 16th Annual Symposium: Sustainability of Space Activities: International Issues and Potential Solutions
- 22 Feb: 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- 22-23 Feb: 2012 NASA PM Challenge
- 23 Feb: NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Planetary Science Subcommittee Meeting
- 26-28 Feb: Space Exploration Alliance 2012 Blitz
- 27-28 Feb: Second International MEPAG Meeting
- 27-29 Feb: Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference
- 28 Feb - 1 Mar: 4th Annual NASA STEM Educators Workshop Series
- 2 Mar: NASA Glenn Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth
- 6-7 Mar: JPL Hosts High-Tech Small Business Conference
- 22 March: Symposium on Suborbital and Small Satellite Missions
- 22-23 Mar: NASA Adminstrator Bolden Speaks at Aerospace and Defense Conference [New]
- 27-29 Mar: 50th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
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Actually I think the Obamanauts were shocked by the conservative restrictions on network tools within the WH. If you think about it, you have a lot more digital flexibility as a blogger than I do as a corporate engineer within a firewall. Now consider moving into the White House, with
(a) intense news interest in every emerging ascii character, that might reflect policy changes;
(b) domestic politics, international relations, and stock markets that pivot on or capitalize on or maliciously exploit whatever you say; and
(c) a need for the tightest IT security in the world.
Now try to attach a Blackberry to the system; and then try to convince your chief of staff to let you blather openly on Facebook or Twitter.
Moving down the chain, there is zero chance that OSTP will have different standards for what goes on Twitter vs. what goes out on a press release. I expect all of that to get reviewed by Rahm.
So this isn't even about old guys like me trying unsuccessfully to prove they can Twitter like a teenager. It's about behaving like grownups in government -- the inescapable need to control any information that might look official.