Each week, the staff of the Cyberdale uses Google's wildly popular search engine to learn more about local public figures. The search itself takes approximately 5.72 second on average (including typing time). But because we are all about creating an enriching informational experience, we put the items we find from that search into the kind of context you just can't create for yourself without wasting another 33.2 seconds of your valuable time. This week's subject is Carbondale's Mayor, Brad Cole.
The first listing on Google for "Mayor Brad Cole" is the mayor's own website @ www.teambrad.com. The site's alternate address is www.bradcole.org. Put them together and you've got one good source of information on the public activities of our mayor. After the revelation that his site straddles the worlds of commerce (.com) and public service (.org), one wonders if he is seeing the beginnings of a blooming political colossus (Dave would surely write, "Cole-ossus". We are not Dave.). A single internet domain containeth him not.
Mayor Cole is restless for new challenges. He has been- I think we're only scratching the surface here - both a mandala artist and a beverage label designer. His web listings stretch to a healthy 13 pages. And as a sign that Cole's political career is still in its infancy, it seems possible that some of these listings may not be composed exclusively from press releases!
A quick peek under Google's "news" tab and we get two more pages of mayoral insight. Not surprisingly, most of the news items are links to articles in the Southern. More suprisingly, there's only one item from the DE. This descrepancy is likely due at least in part to the Egyptian's policy of referring to Mayor Cole as "That Dude".
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