Tomorrow night at the Kissimmee City Commission meeting, one of the most serious items our commission has discussed in many years is on the agenda. Not since the great 'Swine Reclassification' debate that raged a few years ago has an issue bubbled to the surface quite like the issue Commissioner Gemskie has brought up for tomorrow night's meeting. The social and economic balance of our community hangs on the discussion of 'Item 8 C' or the "Commission Cellphone Usage Policy" which is an item intended to discuss, "the Commission policy on its usage of cell phones and personal data devices during commission meetings." While the WayneWho staff has had many reports of select commissioners who seem to excuse themselves from meetings to seemingly get input from California based consultants on issues being discussed via their mobile personal computing devices, we have learned from sources close to someone who once deployed linear parking guidelines at city hall that this is not the reason for the discussion.To explain how this discussion item has been able to leapfrog the other pressing issues in our community such 9.6% unemployment, the CRA trailer park built with tax dollars in downtown that is still sitting vacant, and the appearance of style hazardous rope-lighting, we must look at unconfirmed incidents that could have happened a couple of weeks ago during a lengthy 'discussion' by Mayor Swan. During one of the 'discussions' where Mayor Swan lays out how he would like the rest of the commission to vote, a 'Twitter' post appeared on one of the other commissioners 'Twitter' page at exactly 6:27 pm that said simply the word 'Boring...' Another post a few minutes later by the same Commissioner stated 'just finished reading the waynewho blog and it sucked today. need more puppet videos that hit g.' This seems to be the post that started of a flurry of angry 'Twitter' posts that made many references that blogging rules do not allow un-news sources, such as WayneWho, to republish. Needless to say the on screen banality of that commission meeting created by the writers at Access Osceola, did not reflect the on-line 'Twitter' fight that was taking shape. The WayneWho staff didn't understand any of this 'Twitter' talk either, so we decided to do some digging.
By the definition posted on Twitter.com, "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" This basically means that people post exactly what they are doing at every point during their day. People who use 'Twitter' are known as 'Tweets' by their fellow 'Tweeters' while those of us on the outside normally refer to them as 'Twits.' Basically it is an entire site that has the same 'exciting' and narcissistic consistency as the School Board Updates e-mailed out by our good friend Osceola County School Board Member Jay Wheeler. While most of our readers are probably still trying to understand the value of 'Twitter' let us assure you that it is a site that is worth spending taxpayers money and staff time on trying to figure out how to legislate it's correct usage by elected officials. The WayneWho staff recommends that the Commission appoint a 'Twitter' Czar to help tame tarnishing timely 'Tweets.'
Till tomorrow, 'Tweet' typing.
9 comments:
This is very important. I believe that Twitter should be required for all commissioners. We need to know exactly what they are doing. I know that I will never vote again for a candidate that does not know what Twitter is.
And I think it would be cool to get many updates per day on Jay Wheeler's activities instead of a synopsis at the end of the week.
Do you have the link to their twitter pages?
Maybe Jay will tell you when he's taking a s***.
WITH A 3 HR TIME DELAY TO CALIF AND THE MEETING NOT BEING SYNCED FOR PC VIEWING, WHO COULD BE TWITTING TO CARLOS? OH MY GOD! COULD IT BE ART?
GRAFFIX might be right. There is no way to know if the commissioners are committing some sort of sunshine law violation. There were reports that they had 'talked' to each other about the Vice-Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tem setup outside of the meeting, so who knows what they are up to.
Gemskie's had it. From all America city to twitter? He used to brag about getting parking stripes downtown. He is good at micro managing, or doing the dirty work for Swan and Durbin. When is Durbin leaving?
I always knew they were a bunch of twits, and now WayneWho has proven it. Good Job WayneWho!!!
I agree that we need more puppet videos!
Wait a minute. They have "rules" for their conduct anyway. Granted, they are never enforced since Swan became Mayor, but still. The rules are printed out and available. They are not to speak over one another (a Swan favorite), they are not to personally address another commissioner (anyone?) and they are to never, repeat never show disrespect to each other, staff or the public (Hello! Jim Swan!).
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