So I went tonight to catch up on city meetings. This meeting wasn’t working (it featured the edited/deleted version of the mayor’s chew ass session with councilor Anderson). But then I started searching other videos. I got the same message each time;
Seems someone either at City Hall or Carnegie is scrambling to fix the mess. Because you know, transparency is so messy 🙂
I actually am planning to ask the council to try to increase the pressure on central services to work on this. I think they need to lean on the software provider of SIRE. Specifically:
1. Outages
2. The fact that because of some bug they have to start recording 15 minutes earlier and then chop out the first 15 minutes or so later.
3. SIRE requires Silverlight, which is deprecated (obselete) and is/will work on even less devices and browsers. You can’t watch videos on iOS (Ipad, phone), Android (Samsung Galaxy, Note, Nooks, Samsung, other tablets). And now Google Chrome has deprecated it, you can only turn it on with a backdoor option, and in about Sept with the release of Chrome 42 they are disabling Silverlight entirely. That will leave essentially watching on your Mac desktop in Safari or Firefox, and Internet Explorer or Firefox on your Windows desktop. I’d like to know what the plan is, if any, to move to something like HTML5 that is widely supported across devices.
It’s really an incredible service having these videos available, but it needs to be reliable and accessible.
Transparency has become as murky as the Big Poo River. I suggest a dark glasses and white canes demonstration at the next city council meeting.
The mayor has no business chewing out a councilor. In fact, the council is a check on the mayor and they can criticize him. Strong mayor means less restricted actions not going to the principal’s office.
I’m hoping Bruce Cam has the video of the mayor’s rant. It’s worthy of an ethics complaint but (oh well) the mayor decides a board and there are still brainwashe’d vegetables at the city on his side.
Should come as no surprise…..what the mayor doesn’t the public to see or know about, he hides it!
This is what happens when you bring over one of your Premier lackeys to run a city department for which they have only limited qualifications.
They could find a much cheaper and more reliable system, and save the taxpayers six-figures in licensing costs and a staff salary.
Check out the argus Leader poll question of the day referencing the dissension between the city council and the mayor.
The question reads:”Is the recent contention between the council and the mayor good for the city?”
Go to http://www.argusleader.com to vote by 7:00 p.m.
The headline of the story is:”City Council Strikes Back, Setting Up For Drama” by Stu Whitney
They should just ustream it, which leaves an archival version anyway. Oh yeah, then they can’t edit out the sections they don’t want us to see.
Pardon me. I added Argus online. TS #5 link got my attention. If they’re seeing behind the scenes (Whitney article), I want to check in. The council is coming out of the closet and I want to watch and cheer. Whitney takes the mayor’s side some but recognizes the council must restrict some of the extravagance. TV networks still follow the propaganda path but there’s hope.
Fixed now.
[…] you can watch the videos in Explorer (ONLY). No other browsers work. On top of that, we see they have edited (again) the famous Kenny Anderson/Mayoral ass chew session, this time they have replaced the paused video frame of Councilor Erickson with the floating head […]