This is just plain embarrassing. First, compare what the Prime Minister’s web site looks like to the U.S. President’s web site (screen prints below). Quite frankly, the PMO looks like a 1998 design, based on the usual “I love me” wall that you find in the offices of insecure or ego maniacal executives. OK, that last part is to be expected. What really hurts is Dave Winer’s critique of whitehouse.gov and his suggestion that it is seriously behind the times. Sigh.
Is anyone from the PMO paying attention? The person who should be listening is Kory Teneycke, Harper’s Director of Communication. His big contributions to date seem to have been a blue sweater and a rabid dog attack on Quebec and culture. Good luck with the whole web/transparency/dialogue thing!
