to Daniel Rother, used under First Amendment Fair Comment and
Criticism, blog post by John Hoff
How would you like to live next to this unsightly mess? Neighbors are griping on North Vent Facebook forum about 2919 Penn Ave. N., which is owned by Drew Horowitz Investments and the tax payer is Hard Money Partner LLC.
And now a word or two about North Vent Facebook forum...
It is the new hot thing, pretty much supplanting and replacing the North Talk Facebook Forum (click here for story where it figures prominently) which became too politically correct and full of race-baiting discussions about every topic, even if the topic was, for example, pot holes. A critical mass of people have moved away from North Talk and taken their business to North Vent, and now North Vent is the place to be unless you just want to race-bait yourself for the fun of it.
But there is a problem with so much neighborhood revitalization discussion taking place in Facebook forums. This stuff doesn't make its way to search engines. And to reach a broader demographic, to give our discussions meaning, to even FIND our own discussions to reference those discussions again later, it is necessary to be in the "search engine find-able" part of the internet.
Like Johnny Northside blog. Which, by the way, is now up to 3,500 page views PER DAY, thank you very much.
I am not sure how to convince all my Northside neighbors that discussions and information about, for example, the slumlord behind 2919 Penn Ave. N. is "sound and fury signifying (very little)" if the Googlebots can't eat it for lunch and then crap it into search engines. But every now and then, I see information on North Talk and I think...
I can't let this information go to waste.
Think of it as recycling.
Thank-you! Not everyone is on Facebook. I'd love to be able to view what's going on & what's being said but I don't trust Fb & never will.
ReplyDeleteeveryones always complaining blah blah blah shut up move from north mpls then why don't u people just go to northeast if u don't like it, fuck out the hood yo!
ReplyDelete3,500 page views per day. Hmmm...that should be 3466 more page views per day than the the Chitty Pages when you subtract their 34 followers.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to use NV and NT interchangeably in your post-- go back and make sure you used the right one in the right place. Also, North Vent is an open group which means anyone can view their postings if they want to lurk from the outside. What's the point of appearing in Google results? Is there someone keeping track of internet points for the city?
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why we must call 911 when we see scrappers driving thru our alleys!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're right. There was a "Talk" that should have been a "Vent." I fixed it. It now reads how I intended.
ReplyDeleteJust to be clear: North Vent is the new hot thing. North Talk is fading because a critical mass of people doesn't want to engage in a b.s. discussion about racism every time subjects like POTHOLES come up.
Racism I wished I could say how I really feel!Well I can put it this way people that don't live on the northside don't live like this.
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