A Really New Idea in Open Government

I posted yesterday about the town of Barnstable providing videos of meetings of its board and committees online so the public can watch them at their leisure. I used to live near Alexandria, Virginia, one of my favorite places on earth. It does Barnstable one better in regard to its City Council and Planning Board meetings. Not only can you download or watch videos of meetings from the city’s website, you also can jump ahead in the video to items in the meeting docket (agenda). I read about this kind of software a while ago, but had not seen it in action until I checked out the City of Alexandria’s website. (According to the website for Granicus, Inc, it provides "meeting solutions" to Alexandria, VA, so presumably the downloadable videos are utilizing Granicus's software.) I am not aware of any community in Massachusetts using this technology and there are none listed on the Granicus website. (Isn't Massachusetts supposed to be a center of technological development? Shouldn't we be users too?)