Logs don't lie: Which tech execs have the White House's ear?

Who has the ear of the White House when it comes to technology issues?

When it comes to tech executives from the private sector, Google and Microsoft have both done well at getting into the White House. Many of the visitors were other government technology people, such as Casey Coleman (CIO of the General Services Administration) and Gopal Khanna (CIO for the state of Minnesota). Some were executives, like Rod Beckstrom, the head of ICANN.

But more interesting were the lobbyists, think tankers, and public interest personalities who attended meetings with various technology policy staff members. Free Press and Public Knowledge, two groups that have learned to "punch above their weight" in DC, have also done well at the White House—no surprise, really, given Obama's early tech picks like FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Susan Crawford. Public Knowledge lawyer Harold Feld, who has been mixing it up with the cable industry lately over Selectable Output Control (SOC), visited twice. Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge's president, also had two separate meetings. Josh Silver of Free Press stopped by one time in July. Robert Atkinson, an Obama transition team member and head of the ITIF think tank, paid a visit. So did Michael Calabrese, who does plenty of work with wireless networks and white space devices over at the New America Foundation (where Eric Schmidt of Google is currently Chairman).