The First Hundred Days of the Obama Administration

[Alex]

Hmmm...maybe he would have to beg IT. Just read this in a Slate article on the history of presidential computers:

During his presidency, George W. Bush didn't have a personal log-in to the White House Internet server, nor did he have a personal whitehouse.gov e-mail address. (He gave up his private e-mail account, G94B@aol.com, just before his first inauguration.) When he did go online, there were some things he couldn't access. During Bush's tenure, the White House's IT department blocked sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and most of MySpace. The ability to comment on blogs was blocked, as was certain content that was deemed offensive. According to David Almacy, who served as Bush's director for Internet and e-communications from 2005-07, only two people had access to the iTunes store during that period: Almacy, who had to upload speeches to the site, and the president's personal aide, so that he could download songs for Bush's iPod.

And every news story is saying the new expensive toy is a BlackBerry. I'm pretty sure the image I saw earlier had another name on it but maybe I was wrong. Or the journalists are just using BlackBerry as a generic term.