July 03, 2003
Just A Little Random Irony
Yesterday, a notice came across the ONI (Office of Neighborhood Involvement) Notification mailing list. It was a news release from the office of Commissioner Francesconi, which reads in part:
Now that the City's new homepage is up, Commissioner Jim Francesconi's Council resolution passed in November 2002 REQUIRES bureaus to put notices of new programs, policies, and projects on the City's new PortlandOnline homepage. These announcements will include works in progress, new initiatives, as well as finished products and/or announcements. There will be links to each bureau's individual web sites for further information and contact information.
"It's my hope that this service will help inform the public and provide bureaus with an opportunity to collaborate and comment before policies and projects get to the final stages," says Francesconi.
Which if course is a perfectly sensible thing to institute. So what's the irony? This news release -- or for that matter any news release -- fails to appear anywhere on Francesconi's own section of the Portland Online website.