Greg Sargent has the details:

Now this is a good sign: The Obama transition team has just signed up two leading Web types for the transition's Internet outreach team, a welcome indication that the Obama team is moving to transfer its astonishing online successes during the campaign over to the world of governing.

A transition source tells us that that Macon Phillips, a key Obama campaign Web official, has been tapped to head new media for the transition, and Jesse Lee, a leading Web operative who handled Rahm Emanuel's DCCC internet outreach operation during the 2006 take-back of Congress, has been hired to do online communications. Obama's transition team confirms the hires.

I'd agree with Sargent that this is a positive development. Macon was one of the bright minds in the Obama campaign's new media team who helped fundamentally reshape the way online politics are waged, enabling voters to take the election into their own hands by easily contacting and disseminating information to their friends and by funding the campaign so that it did not have to overwhelmingly rely on large contributions. Jesse has been doing blog outreach as long as anyone in the business, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the 110th Congress, and with the Democratic National Committee during the final months of the 2008 campaign. Their selection, as well as the hiring of Open Left's Mike Lux as a liaison to the progressive community, signals a real interest by the the Obama transition team that they take the new media, and the netroots in particular, seriously.