Yesterday i sang the opening bars of the o what a beautiful morning from Oklahoma!

So, i was collecting signatures, and a nice lady signed and commented that she had been here since the 1970's and the Portland police have always had a reputation for being thugs and racists. "I would never call the police for anything" she says. "They'll just shoot you."

Later I looked at her signature, realized who she was, and got into my seriously good mood which lasted all day.

She is the wife of an older musician who is one of Portland's most celebrated cultural icons. I had visited her house on my rounds during Recall 1.0. Her husband answered the door. when he heard my request for his signature, he gave me an uncertain look. He turned towards his living room, and repeated my question to his wife, whom I could not see from the front stoop. She replied, after a very long pause, "we're not interested." He turned toward me, and sort of made an apologetic motion with his hands, and said, "I'm sorry, I don't follow these things, my wife does."

Mayor Creepy, methinks you might be on the chopping block this time.

ROTFL! Brilliant!

On the one hand, props to the Mayor for using the latest technologies to encourage civic engagement. On the other hand, does this mean things are going to get fixed any faster than complaints sent in back in the stagecoach, telegraph, carrier-pigeon days?

I think not.

Delete: it's the new circular file.

How about this category: bojack’s trogs?

Under which go the names of all the malcontents that post nasty, hurtful comments on this blog about Sam/City Hall, bike riders, young creatives, M’Lord Paulson/MLS, or this Bobo paradise we live in. Creepy.

(So, just in case: love ya, Sam-you got my vote! What recall?).

It is people like Geoffrey Duin that are ruining this city. Nothing but a Scam boondoggle lover. Sickening.

And yes, soccer still sucks!

"On the one hand, props to the Mayor for using the latest technologies to encourage civic engagement. On the other hand, does this mean things are going to get fixed any faster than complaints sent in back in the stagecoach, telegraph, carrier-pigeon days?"

No, I suspect all it means is that yet another new hire joins the City Hall support staff bandwagon, charged with monitoring messages generated by the new app.

I am amazed that the less critical thinking actually fall for this shell game. Does the mayor think he can just generate a ton of non-info and make people not see what is really going on in this town?

Erm, I guess this is Portland after all.

I am going to download it today and take a photo of every pothole on my way home...

Speaking of expanded circular files from Sam, three times in 09, calls were made to Sam's Pothole Hotline. On three blocks of one street there were 37 major potholes. Each time his crews would come out and fill 3 or 4 potholes. Third call I spent the time to identify each hole with painted circles. They came out and patched about 5 of them-23 remain.

But Sam can still get up at meetings, blog and make people think that he is intimately involved in the city's problems with solutions. Now were up to four calls and the circular file continues.

That is one reason that a recall election makes sense-let the people vote on how this city is working for us. It's not about only his lying.

And we're called Bojack Trogs?

It is people like Geoffrey Duin that are ruining this city. Nothing but a Scam boondoggle lover. Sickening.

Ouch! Hey Westside Guy I was being sarcastic, facetious.

Next time will be sure to use some emoticons. :(

Gentlemen, please, can't we all just get along?

I'd sure like to see a candidate for City Council - or three of them - propose that the City focus on priorities - such as not just filling potholes, but actually properly rebuilding roads, keeping infrastructure running, dealing with homelessness, maybe jobs, etc. But, I know, sigh, that's just not pretty enough, fun enough, sexy enough for our Council.

First - not everyone has an IPhone. Pretty dumb to limit it to one type of phone.

Second - this is a ripoff of a free service that has been offered for years (http://www.seeclickfix.com/portland)

Third -- how much time (i.e. money) was spent by the City of Portland's tech department to develop (i.e. poorly copy) this app?

Fourth -- it's ridiculous to think that they will actually act on anything reported.

"First - not everyone has an IPhone. Pretty dumb to limit it to one type of phone."

You're right, but the iPhone does have the largest market share, so writing for it first would be the most effective choice.

"Second - this is a ripoff of a free service that has been offered for years (http://www.seeclickfix.com/portland)"

Perhaps, but this allows for instant capture and send, rather than having to wait to get to a computer and do it.

"Third -- how much time (i.e. money) was spent by the City of Portland's tech department to develop (i.e. poorly copy) this app?"

Probably not very much at all. It's a very simple app that uses routine API calls. Anyone who's familiar with Objective-C could have whipped this up in an hour or two.

"Fourth -- it's ridiculous to think that they will actually act on anything reported."

That is likely to be true. I find it amazing that they don't already know where the problems are. If you want a good laugh, go drive on 22nd Ave. south of Powell headed towards Gladstone St. I don't think there's a four foot stretch that DOESN'T have a pothole in it, and it's been that way for 9 years.

You're right, but the iPhone does have the largest market share, so writing for it first would be the most effective choice.

Except that the iPhone is only available to AT&T Subscribers, so IF - and this is a big IF - every AT&T subscriber had an iPhone (and I can tell you that's not true, I use AT&T and own a Blackberry), you'd only have (on a national basis) 85.1 million out of 272.2 million wireless subscribers - or just over 31%.

The iPhone must have the largest market share but you're talking the difference of 8% to 7%. One source puts the number of active iPhones at 6.4 million in the U.S. - or 7.5% of AT&T Wireless subscribers, or 2.35% of total U.S. wireless subscribers.

Another source shows that in smartphones, Research in Motion (Blackberry) has a whopping 52% U.S. market share, followed by 23% for Apple (in other words there are two Blackberries for every iPhone), 2% for Google, and 23% for Motorola, Nokia, HTC and all other manufacturers.

So...no, the iPhone does not have the largest market share no matter how you want to spin it.