Speaking of White House technology, have you checked out the new White House web site? The new White House blog? Spiffy! And functional! Kottke points out that the Bush White House site had almost 2400 lines of code barring search engines from indexing. and thus searching, the site. The new Whitehouse web site has no such lines of code. This stuff is small, yes, but it matters. It also bespeaks an administration that, at this point, doesn’t think it needs to hide its words and actions from the people it governs.

In less good news, the Office of Management and Budget’s snazzy new web site doesn’t yet have a blog. Cmon, Orszag! Get cracking!

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.