It seems to me like he's talking about that particular story, which deals with something becoming more transparent and accessible. He specifically mentions "hacker values." So I think that for that story at least, we're getting a lot of really relevant discussion over the nature of open government.

Some of these submissions have seemed really off-topic, but the one the comment's on fits pretty well. It works best to go case-by-case. I'm sure people will flag the ones that don't fit in.

We survived the surge in November and things went back to normal - and that one was even worse than this is right now. I think this is just a temporary occurrence.

The topic is certainly OK, I think the OP's point was that we don't need this to become the pseudo Obama-blog documenting his every step and breath.

When some truly significant happens, post it. 8 stories about his Blackberry are hardly useful info.