[RP TownTalk] Patch wants to know about you're upcoming celebrations.

[Lou King]

Except Dwight in this case the "treasure", patch.com or the "service", 
is owned and operated by a for-profit organization, Patch Media 
Corporation. (See www.http://patch.com/terms)

The clutter and where they are trolling for content to increase their 
value is a resource owned and operated by Riverdale Park. I do not 
believe the town has chosen to endorse Patch Media Corp. nor open 
themselves to also allowing other for-profit social networks to use the 
town's (our) resources. For example see Washington Post "Facebook's 
quest to grow revenues apace with membership"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/facebooks_quest_to_grow_revenu.html

You may think it is treasure, I think it is an illegal use of public 
resources by a for-profit organization that is not even based in our 
community.  In some circles the post by patch.com employees could be 
considered "comment spam" who's primary purpose is to get their name on 
our server so when spiders go through our content for indexing they see 
the references to patch and that raises patch's ranking by the search 
engines. (reference most SEO text).

And lastly, under what value system is a request for information a 
"treasure"? They have provided no information - just a thinly veiled add 
for their "service" i.e. clutter in a public space.

Lou
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Dwight Holmes wrote, On 7/26/2010 6:27 PM:
> One person's clutter is another's treasure - no? :)
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Lou King<lking at knob.com>  wrote:
>> Riverdale Town Talk sure is getting cluttered. Not with information or
>> opinions from locals but request for information to fill yet another stream
>> of clutter on the internet.
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>> Lou
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>> Sonia Dasgupta wrote, On 7/26/2010 4:47 PM:
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>>> Patch wants to know about Riverdale Park's upcoming celebrations!
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