Information Week Government: “NASA is building an entirely new Web architecture that leans heavily on cloud computing, open source tools, and social media. It will be used both for public-facing websites and internal Web services, the space agency announced Tuesday. The new Web architecture is part of version 2.0 of NASA’s Open Government Plan. All the major federal agencies released updates on their open government efforts this week as part of the Obama administration’s larger Open Government Initiative, which was jump started by a memo from President Obama in January 2009, soon after he took office. The NASA plan’s focus on the Web is not only natural for any open government effort, but also for NASA in particular, as the agency has been on the Web since the early 1990s. NASA websites are quite popular as government sites go, drawing 600,000 daily visitors and 140 million annual visits. NASA also has more than 250 social media accounts across at least eight social media platforms.”