The Register: “My story is the story of a [San Francisco] Bay Area nerd who goes to Washington and encounters some rather surprising obstacles – surprising in the sense that they are more tenacious and more obscure than you might think,” Google’s director of global public policy [Andrew McLaughlin] told Tim Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo [April 3, 2009]. The kind of things that we were trying to do would be regarded as kindergarten-level, rudimentary technology implementations in the Silicon Valley, private-sector, tech-startup kind of world. But in government, they’re viewed as a massive revolution in both form and approach.”