You know there’s a new dog in town when even the White House now has a blog.

I can’t help but think that this is a crafty response to the Bush White House “lost” email controversy. By applying the  Linus Torvalds theory of backups they can now use the defense: “Your Honour, we didn’t lose our White House correspondence – they’re right there in Google Cache!”.

I can’t help but wonder what the other arms of their Government think of all this. The CIA, for example, now not only needs to be concerned about blowback from their foreign military escepades – they now also need to worry about trackbacks from the nether regions of the blogosphere.

Seriously, though, I can’t help but be fascinated by this. It either represents a level of transparency unheard of under Bush, or it represents a mastery of propaganda that aforementioned dolt could not even conceive of.

Now, the whole world is anxiously awaiting the promised change. What will it look like?

For example, when will the White House Blog enable trackbacks, so that I can drive up my traffic with more silly posts like these?

Or would that bring the CIA to my door?