Note to Government: Learn What RSS Means

September 30th, 2008 by rybolov

If you're new here and would like to see more of what I'm saying, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (I can even email my blog posts to you when I publish a new one) or have a look at my papers and presentations page for downloads of stuff that you can share or "borrow heavily from". You also might find my guidelines for posting comments interesting, especially if you're a government employee. If you want to see me blog about anything in particular, drop me a private email on how you think I'm completely full of myself, extend me an invitation to speak at your next security meeting/event, or just to ship a huge bag of money in my direction, you can do that through my contact page. Thanks for visiting and happy hacking!

Let’s talk process flow rants here for a second.

Every couple of weeks, OMB issues a new memorandum setting policy for the executive branch.  They release the memo to the agency heads who then respond–a policy-based syn/ack/fin loop if you will.

All the memos are set up on the OMB website at this url.

Notice something missing?  Where is the RSS feed?  Seriously, if you want somebody other than just the agency heads to be informed of all your newest issues, you need to make it subscribable either via email or RSS feed.  There are tons of people who would subscribe, and it makes your job that much easier.

This rant was brought to you by the letters R and S.  =)

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3 Responses

  1. LonerVamp Says:

    What? You don’t manually visit all your news sites and blogs and that site too? You’re moving too fast into this technology thing!

  2. Chris Says:

    Not to rain on your rant here, but ahh … the RSS you are looking for is here:

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/ombmemos.xml

    I found it on this page:

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/rss/index.html

    The problem is that the RSS is like 2 days behind whatever notification is sent to the agencies.

    I know this because I get the notification 2 days after you announce it. And then I look like I am not paying attention.

    THANKS!

    Seriously though, an late rss feed is almost as bad as not having one.

  3. rybolov Says:

    Hah, figured you would know where to look.

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