If White House town hall meetings via Twitter and Facebook weren't proof enough that we're moving well into the Gov 2.0 era here in the US, then this might help sway your opinion. The Department of Homeland Security, seeing massively clogged telephone connections on the East cosat following a Virginia earthquake, is encouraging the use of social media to contact friends and family.It's also interesting to note that the DHS didn't wait to put a release out on typical news channels, but instead ch [...]

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