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More Feedback To NASA On Their Beta Website
More Feedback To NASA On Their Beta Website

Keith’s note: I got a note back from NASA PAO in response to my comments on their new beta website yesterday: “Thank you for taking the time to check out the beta site. We’ve forwarded your comments to the team members who are working in real-time to continue updating and improving the new site. We appreciate feedback, and don’t hesitate to let us know if you find other issues or questions.” I replied: “Thanks. Here’s more – Comments generated in real time – if a 67 year old guy sitting in his basement can find all these errors in a matter of minutes doing random clicking – yet your IT contractor has not even thought to do in-house beta testing FIRST before inviting millions of people to weigh in – then you have a problematic website contractor. Just sayin'” [my detailed additional comments below.]

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  • NASA Watch
  • August 3, 2023
NASA Asked Me To Review Their New Website
NASA Asked Me To Review Their New Website

Keith’s note: I just got this from NASA PAO: “Wanted to see if you had time to connect with a NASA expert on the agency’s new beta website, on-demand streaming platform, and app update. For context, here is our latest news release detailing the digital transformation. … We would love to arrange backgrounder interviews on any or all of NASA’s new platforms so you can learn more about our digital transformation and use them as a source for any of your reporting going forward.” Below is my quick drive-by review of the beta site that I sent to the folks at NASA PAO including Marc Etkind and Johnny Stephenson. Let’s just say it has a few things to fix …

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  • NASA Watch
  • August 2, 2023
NASA Ignores Science Websites – Loves Rocket City Trash Pandas
NASA Ignores Science Websites – Loves Rocket City Trash Pandas

Keith’s note: NASA PAO and SMD have repeatedly told me that the NASA Astrobiology program’s Twitter account @NASAAstrobio and its official website would be unable to link to or follow my twitter account @Astrobiology (with nearly 22,000 followers) or its companion website Astrobiology.com which ranks in the 3rd – 4th search results for “astrobiology” on Google, Yahoo etc. – globally – and has for decades (since 1996 to be exact). […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 10, 2021
Overhauling NASA's Tangled Internet Presence – No Obvious Progress
Overhauling NASA's Tangled Internet Presence – No Obvious Progress

NASA Internal Memo: Website Modernization and Enhanced Security Protocols 15 May 2019 (PDF) “Currently there are an estimated 3,000 public-facing NASA Web sites, yet the top 10 sites receive 80 percent of all Web traffic. Additionally, some NASA partners operate Web sites on our behalf outside of the Agency, creating redundancy and accumulating unnecessary costs. Not only does this duplication of information cause confusion, each Wen site provides potential access […]

  • NASA Watch
  • February 12, 2020
Overhauling NASA's Tangled Internet Presence
Overhauling NASA's Tangled Internet Presence

NASA Internal Memo: Website Modernization and Enhanced Security Protocols (PDF) “Currently there are an estimated 3,000 public-facing NASA Web sites, yet the top 10 sites receive 80 percent of all Web traffic. Additionally, some NASA partners operate Web sites on our behalf outside of the Agency, creating redundancy and accumulating unnecessary costs. Not only does this duplication of information cause confusion, each Wen site provides potential access for a cyber-attack […]

  • NASA Watch
  • June 4, 2019
NASA is Unable (and Unwilling) To Coordinate Its Websites

Keith’s note: At bottom of this release “Mars Rover Teams Dub Sites in Memory of Bruce Murray“, JPL has included “For more information about Opportunity, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/rovers and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov . For more information about Curiosity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl“ . Two missions – five websites. First for the Opportunity links. if you go to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ you do not get anything on Opportunity but rather its a Curiosity page. […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 13, 2013
NASA Website Upgrades Are Back on Track

NASA open source project back on track, FCW “NASA’s shift to open-source content management is back on after the incumbent contractor withdrew a bid protest on Feb. 4. The withdrawal of the protest, filed by e-Touch Federal Systems on Dec. 28 after NASA awarded Rockville-Md.-based InfoZen a $40 million blanket purchase agreement, allows InfoZen to begin replacing NASA’s existing content management system with open source architecture to run its 140 […]

  • NASA Watch
  • February 12, 2013
Why does NASA need multiple websites for the same mission?

Keith’s note: The following is put at the bottom of most press releases issued regarding Mars Curiosity. “More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.” Why does NASA pay to maintain three separate websites (two run by JPL) – all of which are out of synch with one another? NASA is constantly complaining that they never have enough money to run all of their EPO and […]

  • NASA Watch
  • August 30, 2012
NASA's Sprawling Web Presence

Keith’s note: According to State of the Federal Web Report, issued 16 Dec 2011 by the .gov Reform Task Force “Some agencies, such as NASA, have a relatively small number of domains compared to other agencies, yet NASA reported the highest number of public websites, with 1,590.” NASA is quoted in this document as saying: True number of systems unknown: Several agencies admitted that it was not clear how many […]

  • NASA Watch
  • December 29, 2011