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February 24th, 2009 • posts i've written

Turns out Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s project to account how taxpayer money is spent, is built on Drupal. Drupal is an open-source, free, content management and publishing system.

So yes, the government, that bloated thing that sucks up our paychecks, just built an incredibly complex site on top of a free piece of existing software, at a rapid pace. Which means the government, that incredibly slow and bloated bureaucracy, just demonstrated itself both smarter and quicker than most Fortune 500 companies.

Here’s a rule of thumb for ’09: if you’re behind the pace of the government in terms of basic social technology adoption, you better catch up.