Devon Tower makes Google maps. But where is everything else?

That means it’s got to be a done deal, right? Of course Google maps is still missing several new hotels, housing developments, two garages in its aerial photos. And when this photo was taken the Colcord was still Class C office space.

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“It’s no wonder young people love it, according to reports about young people by middle-aged people.”
- Samantha Bee

So guys, if you can, help me out here.

- Steve

Metro’s questions and story ideas:

1.) Asian District Streetscaping/ area projects including Lotus Plaza and Sun Moon Plaza as well as the new Asian Plaza that is going up.

2.) Legacy Arts retail update and possibly why Henderson was allowed to bail out on an unfinished OCURA project after he was given several years of delays and watered down the bid that got him the project.

3.) Maywood Lofts/Leslie – brief status update

4.) Devon Update- (not much to report, but everyone is always interested in rehashing old news).

5.) First National Update – I know he wrote about the liens in today’s paper, but I’d like to see much more in depth about what improvements they have done, where they are at with current improvements and what is planned. That new “north” entrance seems to be coming along way behind schedule.

6.) The Hill Update – more info on what Canfield is doing to secure financing.

7.) Humphrey’s Farris Wheel/ Downtown Airpark project

8.) Bert Belanger’s proposed development

9.) Where Steve Mason is at on developing the rest of NW 9th near Broadway.

10.) Update on Mickey Clagg/Bob Howard and their “Midtown Renaissance”. Especially the building on 10th and Robinson as it is shaping up. What are they doing to attract retailers, etc.

Ah what the heck – I always thought Dr. Who had a bit of the multiple personality bit going on. Everytime he got to be likable, he’d become someone totally different.

Yeah, I’ll twitter. Not sure how this works, but I’m sure the wise guy who created an account for me WITHOUT MY PERMISSION (yeah you Mike Koehler) will teach me a trick or two. As for who I’m following, it’s pretty difficult getting past Darth Vader.

As for the poll. Yes, it was hacked. You can read about it in my weekend posts. But I was still able to determine the likely vote was about 600 to 150 if my estimates and blog tracking analysis are correct.

Anyway, that’s about it for now. Had a rough weekend and to be honest I may be a bit challenged to come up with good material the next day or two so forgive me in advance.

The poll as Friday at 5:30 p.m. had more than 2,700 votes. The twitter account set up on my behalf, without my approval, now has 66 “followers.”

Complicating the mission to find out the truth is that the blog traffic reports we get are mangled up every week or two. That happened today.

Not sure what to make of all this. I’ll announce Monday whether I’ll be waving the white flag.

I’m trying to reconcile my blog traffic report with the numbers being reported on the twitter poll. I’ll address this whole matter more on Monday …

Meanwhile, I got an email last night welcoming me to twitter. This was a surprise, since I had done everything possible to run away from the Cybermen. I was clueless at first as to who had tried to force my hand – then I got an email from co-worker and digital guy Mike Koehler, who quickly emerged as the suspect. Here’s what unraveled from there:

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From: Mike Koehler
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:38 PM
To: Steve Lackmeyer
Subject: RE: Twitter

Yes.

Your anti-Twitterism could no longer be tolerated.

I am eventually going to be training everyone about its benefits, but I’m making you a special case. I think it would help you, just so you could be in the flow of some of the conversations happening on the site that are revelent to you and your sources.

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From: Steve Lackmeyer
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:35 PM
To: Mike Koehler
Subject: RE: Twitter

did you do this?