“Boston City Hall, a drab concrete monument to 1960s Brutalism run by a self-described urban mechanic who despises voice mail, isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of technological innovation,” Michael Levenson reports for The Boston Globe.

“But within, a few young, tech-savvy aides are trying to drag municipal government into the age of mobile gadgetry. And they think they’ve hit on something big: a ‘killer app’ that marries 21st-century technology with Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s old-school devotion to pothole politics,” Levenson reports.

“City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances – nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights – and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed,” Levenson reports.

“City officials say the application, dubbed Citizen Connect, is the first of its kind in the nation. It was designed as an extension of the city’s 24-hour complaint hotline for the younger set, making the filing of complaints quicker and easier for iPhone users,” Levenson reports.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Sufferers of other so-called “smartphones” can sit and spin. Multiply that by 50,000+ with apps in every category imaginable and unimaginable.