- Response times to maintenance complaints in public housing increased but were generally within targetsDo you like how with even the bad news, the city tries to spin it? Like with the on-time graduation rate going down by 1%, the city makes sure to say that the kids who didn't graduate are still enrolled or are doing a fifth year (see the NY Times article about this). Anyway, overall, the Mayor was positive, saying, "The early results contained in this report indicate that our agencies are continuing the excellent record of achievement seen over the past four years, including advances in education, public safety, quality of life, and the health and welfare of New Yorkers." Gothamist will spend the weekend sifting through the PDFs of the report and see if there are any gems. We'll leave you with a report that crime is higher in 2006 versus the same period in 2005 but the NYPD thinks it's just a blip. more ›

way to tell the story. Edward Greenwood (husband and father of one) was paid $30,000 to do aministrative work says that after Bloomberg had visited the offices last year, his boss had mentioned (though not to Greenwood) that the billionaire mayor was upset at seeing solitaire on a computer screen. While Greenwood says he did have that Microsoft Office necessity up, he insists that he was "running around" doing work. Office workers know that rule number one of the office computer is "Outlook is king!" - keep that up at all times. This is why disgruntled office workers turn to writing books about their annoying bosses - having a Word document open looks less suspicious. We bet the Mayor's office will make sure things like iTunes, AIM, and any non-government Internet surfing will remain off limits very soon! more ›

Ad Age decides to freak out managers everywhere with an article that leads with "U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs." Oh, boo-hoo: That's spread across 35 million workers, which means 3.5 hours a WEEK is spent reading blogs. Big deal: Blogging is the new talking on the phone or standing at the water cooler. While there are various statistics that claim that only 25% of blog reading directly relates to work, we always thought that being an interesting person who could find ways to handle a drudgery of a job was acceptable. Why can't the American worker take advantage on the increased productivity that a Microsoft Office suite gives us by reading some blogs? We're not talking writing Jack-Sawyer Lost fan-fic, for crying out loud. Old media is so mean - they refuse to consider blogs sources of news! more ›