This floated across my Twitter stream this morning via @bradsaccount, who is the Director of New Media at the Massachusetts Governor's office:

Massachusetts Governor Patrick's Office has an official twitter feed now. Follow away! www.twitter.com/massgovernor

Interesting, to say the least.

Storm knocks out service in Brookline, Roslindale, no doubt points inbetween, but how can you report if your Internet is broken and you don't have, oh, a 'Net-enabled smartphone?

John Cass posts a list of Boston-area companies doing semantic-Web stuff (think Web 3.0, or just skip down to the next post).

Boston Startup Watch posts a list of the best groups, meetings and bloggers for local Web entrepreneurs.

Wade Roush reports that state Rep. Will Brownsberger of Cambridge and Arlington is filing legislation to forbid companies from including contract clauses that keep workers from working for competitors for at least a year.

Although it's a hot topic among tech workers, Brownsberger told Roush he's especially concerned about low-level service workers who effectively can't find work in the same industry even though they know none of the trade secrets the clauses are meant to protect.

Bijan Sabet is thrilled, argues the clauses put Massachusetts at a competitive disadvantage with states, such as California, that do not allow them.

Last week, Mass. High Tech told us about a Woburn company getting ready to test a flying car. Now they tell us about AeroCopter, headquartered on Newbury Street (!), which is busy designing:

[A] mono-tilt-rotor aircraft using a combination of magnetic levitation technology and a traditional propulsion system with the aim of providing a commuter-sized aircraft that can be employed for both consumer transportation and as an unmanned aerial vehicle for military applications.

Worcester Line experiment a success, so the T now plans to equip up to 258 of its 410 coaches with WiFi, with at least two cars on every single train WiFi enabled by this spring, T officials said this morning. WiFi cars will have a special logo slapped on them.

If you have an analog TV and analog Comcast cable service without a converter box, and you turn on WGBH-TV-2 right now, you're going to see something very wrong: video of normal WGBH programming, accompanied by audio of WGBH's continuously-looping Ready for Digital TV special.

The picture says "This TV is DTV Ready" while the sound says, from time to time, "This TV set is not ready for the switch to digital TV in February 2009". Also, the picture is shrunk down and enclosed in a black box.

WGBH says this is a "Comcast engineering problem", not a problem with WGBH's broadcast or with your TV set.

Local PR pro Rebecca Corliss is burning up the charts with her single about how much traditional marketing and sales suck in the Age of Social Networking:

Corliss provided both the lyrics and the vocals.

Mass. High Tech reports that Terrafugia of Woburn is about three weeks away from test flights of its Transformer-like "roadable aircraft."

If nothing else, it should make Avery Brooks happy: