Dear Bloggy . . . Several hours spent yesterday selecting, resizing, and formatting some of the thousands of photos of Carbondale people, places and things snapped over the years for the upcoming Shawnee Network slide show extravaganza. Nice rainy day for it, but by mid-afternoon time to move away from mouse and monitor to motor over to City Hall to do my civic duty and engage in some . . .

Carbondale Conversations

Waiting to see the mayor this afternoon, I had the good fortune to speak with Sam Goldman and Sarah Heyer about Carbondale Conversations, which got off to a good start last week. I pitched the concept of community blog to Sarah, a net neophyte, but a quick learner. She even offered to create a website for the Carbondale Conversations, but was told by the City webmaster that it would be taken care of . . . but it wasn't . . . or rather hasn't been--yet.

That's the sort of thing I'm talking about . . . we all of us in this city (village, if you will) are expressing ourselves through email, but overall the city's web presence gets a B-minus. Too harsh? Maybe so, but I'm always a tough grader until the final. I hope God (Allah, if you will) is that way, too.

Anyhoo . . . Debbie McCoy was in her office, too, so I suggested two things: 1) doing a marketing survey of the ECHCCC--especially the people currently using the service, and 2) allowing Kevin Clark's young entrepreneur's group to take on the project. Why not? Kevin thinks it's a "great idea" . . . but . . . will the Eurma C. Hayes Child Care advisory commission suffer the little children to lead them?