The Mayor’s Weekly Reader? That was Roch’s suggestion for a weekly sorta kinda blog for our overly-busy Mayor Holliday. We (Jay, CM, Roch, Mayor Holliday and I) had coffee and conversation this morning and listened a lot, offered a little, and maybe came to a vision. The “Blogging Mayor?” Hardly. But online? Maybe. But we have a place to start.
I like folks who take the community up on its offers.
As long as he doesn’t start writing poetry I’ll support his blog. ;-)
Believe it when you SEE it.
[...] My company builds Web sites, in addition to network architecture and nonprofit IT consulting and we constructed a hurry-up site for a House of Rep candidate during the recent election. She visited the office and I had my Google Reader open so we talked about blogs (she’s pro-blog), keeping up with blogs (she’s low on time), and how I manage to do both, in addition to running a business and being fairly civic-active [transcript]. When she saw RSS feeds in the reader, she understood faster than I could ever have explained with words, pictures, and metaphors. My next step was convincing our Mayor that in a town nicknamed “Blogsboro” by the LA Times, he should consider some sort of blogging. It’s all in the RSS. [...]
[...] The story could have gone the other way; he could have stopped me and either warned or ticketed me and I’d have been upset and angry for at least 2 days at my own carelessness and the ignominy of getting caught. But I know one thing: No matter how many ConvergeSouth conferences I admin, or how many civic projects I’ve done, or that I’ve called Hizzoner “Keith” while having coffee or Council Member Carmany “Sandy” at CompUSA, I was speeding (about 8 miles over) and if I’d gotten a ticket, it would have been my fault. [...]