At the risk of seeming blind...

[blondeamazon.livejournal.com]

what happened yesterday that prompted Tom to delete his DSLJ account? I looked back in the posts and couldn't find it. I gather from the comments today that there was some confusion in some info he provided, but I didn't see the implied disaster. Was it related to the parking ticket thread? I read all the comments and didn't see any from him.

Comments

[richips.livejournal.com]

This may have some answers:
http://community.livejournal.com/davis_snark/20335.html

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree with your icon more.

[blondeamazon.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. Makes more sense now. I don't sub to the snark community, and don't plan to as I get enough on b0st0n.

[richips.livejournal.com]

yeah precisely. see kids, when you don't listen to me when i say let's snark less, things like this happen!

[kidsmokes.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Tom is, since I'm still fairly new to this community, but apparently this is a really big deal. idgi.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Here's (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/09/tom_champion_has_a_voice_that_carries) a Globe profile of Tom.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Tom CHampion is SOmerville's PR guy- if you get the robo calls from 311 saying "There's a snow emergency" or "Zombies have taken over the eastern half of the city, all survivors should rally at the Powderhouse, please bring guns" they are from him. He joined LJ as a tool to communicate with us, and it's been pretty awesome, until too many people flipped their shit too many times and he decided the experiment was a bust.

It was great seeing that the city actually gave a crap about what we had to say.

[kidsmokes.livejournal.com]

i don't have a house phone, and I have an out of state telephone, so no robocalls for me.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I just tested out my parents phone number in Minneapolis, and it let me submit it, so you can get the robo-calls, if you want.

otherwise, when the zombies come, you're just screwed.

[jamiesquared.livejournal.com]

LOL. Will your parents now be getting the robo calls :)

[leko.livejournal.com]

my phone number is also out of state, but the robocalls work for me.

[spatch]

The moral of the story: The Internet ruins everything.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

HA! Yes. But in all seriousness, I think the breakdown come with the communication between the Internet and a Municipality.


Where the internet is instant, Somerville is not able to move that quickly

Tom attempted to bridge that gap, to get us answers and results quickly, however this meant on two occasions he had information that wasn't accurate.

This has to be frustrating to him, he put himself out there but at times had to report information he thought was accurate but wasn't. I don't blame him a bit for leaving but I don't think that anyone is at fault. It was a communication breakdown.

[violet-helix.livejournal.com]

What was the first time?

[ron_newman]

It was related to the sexual assault near Powderhouse.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Lol! Best hypothetical robocall ever.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i agree. this is even better than TC getting hammered and drunk-dialing the entire city.