The Best and Worst of Government Web Design

The Internet is a wasteland of abandoned Web sites, and nowhere is this more true than the ghost town of .Gov homepages forgotten by bureaucrats. However, with the election of our first tech-savvy president--forever twittering, YouTube addressing, and Facebook updating--comes a bold new precedent for public sector Internet activity. Just this week the White House asked techies and scientists from across the Web what the United States' next great technological achievement should be.