Our beloved transit authority has launched its foray into the blogosphere:
We think it will be a new way to talk with you. It’s our way of putting a human face on a huge agency and becoming more open and transparent. As a government agency, METRO’s activities are public, anyway, but sometimes it’s hard to dig out the information.
We hope our blog will help fill that role. We want to start a dialog, listen to what you have to say and be more responsive.
No doubt. The blog is written by Mary Sit, a former writer for the Chronicle. Quoth Ms. Sit:
As someone new to METRO and new to blogging, what do I bring to the table? A sense of curiosity, a reporter’s eyes and ears
Yeah, because when I think, “Who’s been an effective watchdog over Metro,” the Chronicle leaps to mind.
Anyway, this should be fun to mock savagely watch. Stay tuned.
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Count the outbound links… not even one to Scoble.
BLOGGER LAW: If you have time to type a URL, you have time to link it.
Do they have any actual veteran blogger advising this person?
Methinks they need to be put through IFOC Boot Camp.
If nothing else, act like you care. That’s always the best policy. That will give you time to draft another “feel good” or “I care” policy (aka “the run around” policy). Well, at least Metro can say they create jobs, don’t know what for, but at least there is one less unemployed person out there.
Ah yes, another World-Class feather in the World-Class cap of the World-class transit authority of this World-Class city.
How long before the bloom falls off the rose?
Metro’s objective is to perpetuate itself by proposing an ineffectual mass transportation model that has no chance of working thereby insuring jobs for METRO employees in perpetuity.
From what I see on Mary Sit’s Blog is more restrictive than the METRO “Solutions Phase II scheme” page.
It likely will be another total waste of precious taxpayer resources to support another propagandist.
#5
You catch on really quick.
Baker plugs… SCORE!
What a waste of the blogosphere! Let’s see, if you don’t agree with Mary Sit, you are exterminated. If you agree with everything she says, you are allowed to voice your opinion. That sounds about right…
A face? So does this mean she is going to be set up for live chat with web cam?
Everyone needs a spin machine and now Metro has theirs.
I’d like to know if the rumors are true.
Is “You can’t get there from here” really Metro’s new motto?
Neo: that’s how I took it as well, when I was reading the rules…apparently they only want “acceptable” comments. Thanks, but I’ll stick to Lawrence’s blog. Way more interesting~
Shut them down with overload
Link to METRO FY2007 Budget:
http://www.ridemetro.org/pdf/FY2007BudgetBook.pdf
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On page 114 of the METRO FY2007 budget, they list the addition of a media specialist and a blogger (blooger listed in FY2006 but unfunded).
Salaries of this one or two people is $162,475 along with $66,765 in Fringe Benefits, plus a generous $5,004 in supplies!
Seems as Ms. Sit is allowing METRO to LOOT (Living Off Other Taxpayers) Houstonians for this new propaganda blog.
Sic ‘em, Matt!