The "e" is dead: long live the "v"! The official death of the "e" era seems to be at hand, as the U.S. government has decided to drop the goal of creating "e-government" and to move towards what they are terming "digital government", according to CIO Magazine. In the Feds' minds, digital government takes it beyond the "smiley face" web sites on top of old publishing and work processes and building all information services and capabilities web-enabled and focused on the needs of the "clients". Their "tick list" of desired capabilities reads like a typical CIO's wish list: 24/7 self-service convenience, consistent services through multiple delivery channels, and so on. Well, these folks are the ones that got humans to the moon, after all, but given the still-backwards back ends of most government content platforms, one shudders at the thought of what the tab is going to look like in our paychecks. As professional enterprises discover that highly valued content does not necessarily equate to huge I.T. budgets, one hopes that the folks in Washington come to learn about what it takes to make vContent sooner rather than later.