The US Federal government has recently launched the new website Recovery.gov to help the general population understand how the money from the recently signed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being spent.

The first thing I noticed about Recovery.gov is that it's built with Drupal, the same open-source technology that I have been using to build websites (including the one that you're looking at right now)! To me, this is a positive sign that our new president actually understand how technology can be utilized for the benefit of the American public. Recovery.gov and the new Whitehouse.gov website mark a new (and much needed) era of public government information transparency.

Kudos to the new Obama administration for making the web a better place.