26.05.12
There are times when following the activities of the Portland Megalopolis Council can be taxing for the average journo. The combination of long agendas, meetings that linger, and early filing deadlines are killer. If you ever wanted to play whiteheads the journo at a council meeting, look for the folks tapping away on laptops, while anxiously examining their watches.
Wednesday continuously's meeting on the “OccupyMaine” petition was no exception to the manage. With a meandering line of folks wanting to make public footnote, the snake of a line started to resemble the wavering wait of lines for a ticket purchase to a Grateful Dead show.
When an issue in question is particularly contentious, the lecture-room fills quickly to overflow in the upstairs balcony. For years, furrow 2 on public access has carried the council live for folks who wanted to surveillance from home. Now, it just got easier.
The meetings are being streamed live on the Internet by a area called “Townhallstreams.com." Several communities in Mane have taken up the submit, among them Augusta, Wells, Gray, Kennebunk and York. With a few clicks, you can watch the junction from wherever, complete in your bathrobe and slippers.
Source: Portland Daily Sun