Belltown dot shrug - time to change community info sites

Brochure sites for neighborhoods and communities have got to go. Case in point, Belltown.org

Sure, it was created in an 'innovative' vision but that vision has quickly faded. It's simply not useful to have a mostly static site spinning around with no dialogue and very little useful information beyond business listings.

Blogs are probably just a new form of brochure sites but at least they have a spirt of update and live broadcast. So, quit wasting money hosting a dead site like belltown.org and start putting it to work on a site that the community will actually utilize and participate in.

Top 5 Things They're Waiting on at the OSP

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Originally uploaded by iflynn.

Are you down with OSP? Yeah, you know me.

But we can't figure out what in the heck they're waiting for before digging in and GETTING TO FRICKING WORK on the Olympic Sculpture Park. So, while you ponder the weedy, empty lot, we offer this list of possible reasons for delay.

1. They're waiting for summer. This year, looks like October or November.
2. Miscalculation: Calder piece will require re-routing of Western.
3. Mayor Nickels fighting for Top Pot donut shop insertion in plan.
4. Construction stalled to allow for Myrtle Edwards 'Traveling Vagabond Fest 2005'
5. Old Spaghetti Factory expansion plans being taken into "consideration".

For a blow by blow account of things, looks like we can follow along with this citizen journalist.