Now that richmond.com has been newly tainted by the Times-Dispatch, I must find fault. It was clean and simple before. Now it's obtuse and complicated. Like the big map that takes up prime real estate on the page. Find stories in your neighborhood, it says. I picked my neighborhood and the neighboring neighborhood. There are no stories.
I picked my last neighborhood, Mechanicsville, which had two feeds from the Mechanicsville Local, and then, oddly a feed from the food blog "whine me dine me" and another from the blog Buttermilk & Molasses, which is not neighborhood-centric.
There was a TV show in the late '50s called "Naked City" that signed off with "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
Well, apparently there are no stories in most of the naked neighborhoods according to richmond.com. Why put this map in the middle of the page?
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Buttermilk & Molasses is never North Richmond. North Richmond News, however, is almost always North Richmond. Just to clarify.
This was originally written late at night and what I meant isn't clear. I have since reedited it. Sorry.
Thanks, Mariane. Either way, your point is accurate -- if you're going to run a neighborhood news map so prominently, you'd better make sure it's got some strong feeds, especially for areas with a lot going on.
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