<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d62fd71b-3167-42f1-b65b-49a140b9fbd3/D0702C90-1329-4799-9630-3AB282D98E47/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html" href="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.cqpolitics.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html"><DIV class="asset-header"> <H2 class="asset-name"><A href="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html">Who Should Be Obama's Tech Czar?</A></H2> <DIV class="asset-meta"> <P class="blogtimestamp"> <SPAN class="byline"> June 30, 2008 7:00 AM </SPAN> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN> <A href="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html" class="permalink">Permalink</A> | <A href="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html#comments">Comments (0)</A> </p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/innovations/2008/06/who-should-be-obamas-tech-czar.html"><DIV class="asset-body"> Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proposed creating a Cabinet-level position for a chief technology officer. <A href="http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/8378.html">Washingtonian.com </A>finds the idea intriguing, and reviews some of the names being kicked around among techies. Should the czar be Google's Vint Cerf, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, or someone else? Author Garrett Graff says the push for a national CTO comes at a time when Washington and Silicon Valley are trying to develop closer relationships<P> </P><P> <EM>Web pick posted by Neil Savage,<A href="http://www.xconomy.com"> Xconomy.com </A></EM> </P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0702C90-1329-4799-9630-3AB282D98E47/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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