In May 2006, Scott Adams described what could be called the “Pragmatic Party” (sadly, his blog archives were nuked, but you can still read my entry). Last Tuesday, Barack Obama was elected President. Two days later, we have this website, change.gov:

Could Obama really be doing what Adams suggested? I was skeptical about Obama’s rallying cry for change, but this is incredibly hopeful looking.
Tags: politics, Barack Obama, Scott Adams, change








November 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Good question. I suspect the twitter user community who was accustomed to the old pre-oauth ways of dealing with authorization ...
November 5th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Another question that occurred to me -- how is this different than cookies allowing access to a site when browsing? ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I agree with that option as well. It largely depends on what the outstanding tokens allow access to in my ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I would paraphrase what Terrence said a bit: Most users expect that when you change your password, having known the ...
November 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Alex: That's a great analogy -- hopefully, that helps others understand why the "expected" behavior that Terence suggests is both ...