Dot-Gov Reform Presses On, Here and Across the Pond

An initiative to drastically reduce the number of federal websites has been making slow but steady progress during the last few months. There were 1,091 non-redirecting federal websites on a list maintained by the General Services Administration when I checked just a few days ago. As of Wednesday, the list is down to 1,084 unique sites. That’s compared to nearly 1,500 dot-govs during an official count in December. This progress is particularly worth noting because the British government, which U.S. technology officials have cited as a model for dot-gov reform, reached a milestone this week, pulling all government Web content into a single master domain.