One Week Later
Well its been a week-- a short week, since our official launch was Tuesday-- and we're still here. But really we've been posting since last Friday. So we'll say after our first 7 days, a few things come up:
Comments
Comments will return in a week or two. We think comments are an important part of an online community. After the flurry of publicity surrounding our initial launch, most of the comments were nonsensical, base, not constructive and failed to contribute anything meaningful to a dialogue. We know this is the internet, and since any five year old with a keyboard can log on, our expectations were pretty low; and then we were amazed that even those expectations werer too high. We don't have a problem with criticism, and we'd even encourage it, but we'd like to think that the dialogue could remain at least as civil as a Hoboken council meeting.
Expanded Reviews
We know most of our reviews have been concentrated in and around Grove Street. And there are a few more coming from there too. But what we'll say is this: we're working on it. We have a small budget for this site: that is to say, zero dollars. And while we'd love to order five items on a menu to sample them all at once, serve up a delicious review, and head out to the next place, that's unrealistic. We're in the process of growing, so grow along with us. You're local dive is next, we promise.
More Neighborhoods
Some people have pointed out that we have excluded certain areas like the Heights, or that we've lumped their neighborhood together, like Harsimus Cove. Unlike our peers across the river, we don't have a staff, or a budget, or even interns to beat. Its just us and a digital camera. We picked certain areas we feel we can give a certain amount of attention to at the present time, and that by combining certain areas together, it helps streamline the whole process. If we had a staff the size of the New York Times, we promise you we would label every lot.
History
We love history, and think its fascinating. We have every intention of posting articles about the history of the area. But of all things, these sorts of stories take the most amount of time, especially when you don't want to simply rehash a wikipedia article. But we will, we promise, post interesting articles about the hisotry of the area.
And Still More
We're exploring more ideas of things to expand into. Arts, Op-Eds, Events-- these are all possibilities. We're trying to build a well rounded blog. But all these take time. We do like tips, suggestions, links, and other things of interest to come from you. So keep it coming, along with your hate mail to theinformation -at- newyorkssixth.com.
Comments
Comments will return in a week or two. We think comments are an important part of an online community. After the flurry of publicity surrounding our initial launch, most of the comments were nonsensical, base, not constructive and failed to contribute anything meaningful to a dialogue. We know this is the internet, and since any five year old with a keyboard can log on, our expectations were pretty low; and then we were amazed that even those expectations werer too high. We don't have a problem with criticism, and we'd even encourage it, but we'd like to think that the dialogue could remain at least as civil as a Hoboken council meeting.
Expanded Reviews
We know most of our reviews have been concentrated in and around Grove Street. And there are a few more coming from there too. But what we'll say is this: we're working on it. We have a small budget for this site: that is to say, zero dollars. And while we'd love to order five items on a menu to sample them all at once, serve up a delicious review, and head out to the next place, that's unrealistic. We're in the process of growing, so grow along with us. You're local dive is next, we promise.
More Neighborhoods
Some people have pointed out that we have excluded certain areas like the Heights, or that we've lumped their neighborhood together, like Harsimus Cove. Unlike our peers across the river, we don't have a staff, or a budget, or even interns to beat. Its just us and a digital camera. We picked certain areas we feel we can give a certain amount of attention to at the present time, and that by combining certain areas together, it helps streamline the whole process. If we had a staff the size of the New York Times, we promise you we would label every lot.
History
We love history, and think its fascinating. We have every intention of posting articles about the history of the area. But of all things, these sorts of stories take the most amount of time, especially when you don't want to simply rehash a wikipedia article. But we will, we promise, post interesting articles about the hisotry of the area.
And Still More
We're exploring more ideas of things to expand into. Arts, Op-Eds, Events-- these are all possibilities. We're trying to build a well rounded blog. But all these take time. We do like tips, suggestions, links, and other things of interest to come from you. So keep it coming, along with your hate mail to theinformation -at- newyorkssixth.com.
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