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White House opens its website programming to public

A programming overhaul of the White House’s website has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it’s a snooze — you won’t notice a thing.

The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov — meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.

"We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site," White House new media director Macon Phillips told The Associated Press hours before the new site went live on Saturday. "This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it."

By Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer

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