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The newly skinned site is much easier to read and has a beautiful color scheme. White House Internet Director David Almacy deserves much praise for undertaking such a huge project.

There will always be complaints, however, and my initial suggestion would have been to embed web 2.0 tools into the page. I fear that the Bush Administration just isn’t ready to take that leap. Fortunately, the candidates of the future are already talking about their Internet objectives, including Jim Gilmore’s support for a White House blog.

If you have any thoughts or comments, you can chat with Almacy tomorrow on Ask the White House at 4 p.m.

UPDATE — March 6, 10:03 p.m.: Last Friday I ran into David Almacy, who informed me that some of the web 2.0 features that I mentioned in my original post can’t be integrated on WhiteHouse.gov. I wasn’t aware that government rules restrict links to external commercial websites. That’s too bad — and probably a rule that needs to be changed.