As we know, the changeover at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and across Washignton is at noon, Tuesday, Jan. 20. In this day and age, when government agencies Tweet (Israel’s Foreign Consulate during the Hamas War two weeks ago) and the White House has experimented with blogging, enterprising online media might want to watch for how quickly these Web sites — with the White House’s as the first one to check, I suppose — make the changeover. Will they do it in real time? It will be a cute story, at least, or an embarrassing one, potentially, if the Web-savvy Obama team cannot get its online presence up and running at the same time it moves into new offices.
Tidbits contributor Barb Iverson adds:
Yesterday CNN, had a report on the logistics of the physical move at the White House. The moving vans will pull up the minute that the Bushes leave for the inaguration and they will swap out Bush family belongings and bring in the Obama’s stuff. Mrs. Bush has been moving things out since the summer, knowing that the transistion was coming. It would be ironic if the physical move was accomplished more quickly than the digital changeover.
