With recent news of the government having to use RSS feeds to report stimulus news, with a White House blog, and members of congress tweeting during Obama’s recent speech, it seems this read/write Web stuff is really going maintream.

Some time ago, I ran into the official TSA blog (recent post), which almost seemed like a joke. I don’t know anyone who really trusts or has good feelings about the folks who screen you at the airport.

Yet, the official TSA blog reads like a really honest entity, I mean, how many government publications title something 3 oz or 3.4 oz? What gives??? with three question marks, to boot.

Bob, Jay, Lynn, Nico, and Paul are the writers behind the blog, and I have to give them some credit for keeping the communication honest and “real.” Who is to say it’s the blog medium or the folks writing, but there here’s an example of a real inside-look of a government entity that we’d likely never have seen before.

So give them a try, and hopefully you can take a few lessons away from the experience. A blog seems to be the only appropriate online space where you’d get an answer about what all the guards are doing, standing off to the side, as you walk through a checkpoint.

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