Good Reviews for David Lytel Writing
Boardwatch
Boardwatch12/94: “simply superb in all respects.”
Government Executive
Government Executive (January 1996): Federal agencies are way ahead of the private sector in making a large amount of information available at a minimal cost to. an unprecedented number of people,” says David Lytel who manages the White House web site. “The Freedom of Information Act used be the standard way to get certain kinds of information. Now the Web has become the de facto way; it’s the first place many people look.
“The Internet Goes to School” — The New York Times
1996-3-7 “The Internet Goes to School,” New York Times Metro section. “A teacher selected the White House home page as an engaging first exhibit where they nuggt be able to extract information for future reports. The first group of four pupils elbowed each other for space in front of the computer screen, clicking the bottom to bring up a picture of President Clinton riding a horse or an image of Socks, the White House cat, that actually meowed through the speakers. Meow! the boys and girls shouted back. If you were watching the news you might not know what Clinton does because on the news he just talks… and you couldn’t hear the cat go meow any where else. The World Wide Web was a hit.
"The White House site is fabulous"
Socks is my hero. We’re bigger than sex,” said David Lytel, information infrastructure specialist at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the government agency that maintains the new site. “But I don’t know how long that will last.” This was very briefly true. In its first week the White House page was accessed by 86,233 users. The next most popular was “Erotica” with 33,451 individual site visitors.
Federal Computer 100: The last time the president was this accessible James Garfield waw shot on his morning walk.
Bill Gates & Marc Andreessen Recognition
Named one of favorite sites by Billl Gates of Microsoft and Marc Andreessen, inventor of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape.
Federal Computer 100:
The last time the president was this accessible James Garfield waw shot on his morning walk.
NBC Today Show Demonstration
More than 125 stories ran in print and on broadcast, including a live demonstration on NBC’s Today Show by Vice President Gore. There was coverage in Time, New York Times, USN&WR, Washington Post, USA Today, UPI, AP, Knight Ridder, Boston Globe, CNN
White House Website Statistics & Public Response
In its first few months the site has 42M total file transfers, 123,000 guestbook entries, about 250K readers of daily WH electronic publications and 750K e-mails to the President and Vice President