Speaker of the House Starts Blogging

Bjimba writes "Denny Hastert, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has just started his own blog on the official speaker.gov site. I don't know if he'll keep up with it, but from reading his initial post, it seems clear that he's not employing ghostbloggers."

blog? bah.

[jpmatth]

hastert's colleague in the senate, barack obama, has been doing an excellent podcast [senate.gov] for several months now.

On Marines.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Marines.com is the recruiting side of the USMC web network. The actual marines site is a .gov. My USMC email address is a .gov. The reason the Recruiting command decided on a .com for the recruiting web presence was because it is much easier to get someone interested in the marines to remember marines.com rather than marines.gov. I bet if you took the average kid and asked him what the marines website might be, they'd say marines.com.

So... that's why.

Re:No comments?

[Rescate]

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has a blog [myownjournal.com] that allows comments. I found that out while reading this Washington Post article [senate.gov] posted on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) site. According to the article, Tancredo is the only federal lawmaker with his own blog that accepts comments.

Even though a lot of lawmakers don't have their own blogs with comments, many will post at other blogs and receive comments there. Obama posted a diary about the Roberts nomination [dailykos.com] over at Daily Kos, and got over 800 responses. His followup diary got over 400 more.