New Official White House Website is Slow to Update

Posted on January 22, 2009

The new official White House website at whitehouse.gov has been lauded for its redesign but the most important thing about any website is fresh content. That's something the new website is seriously lacking. There have been many historical events that have taken place in the last 48 hours and most of them aren't documented on the offical White House website - no photos, no reports and no videos.

A Washington Post story explains some of the problems including old Microsoft software but the last administration made regularly updates using the old software so that really isn't a good enough excuse. Someone in the Obama administration needs to crack the whip and get the content flowing on whitehouse.gov.