Below its epic-event coverage of HCR, this morning's NYT front-pages an article about mayors across the country doing goofy stunts to get Google's attention.

I keep saying that a strong response to the RFI and a genuine outpouring of grassroots interest should be more valuable than mayoral hi-jinks in terms of impressing Google, but there's value in a highly visible role for the mayor in terms of getting the public informed and fired up, so I believe that Bill Knight should have done more than be "vaguely positive but curiously detached" about this effort.

He should find a way to ameliorate the damage caused by his campaign comments on Chief Bellamy, too.

But it sounds like he's been busy, and that he's focused on some nuts-and-bolts stuff that needs attention, and I continue to wish him well and hope for the best.