The once popular news site "The Grand Lake Guardian" is in a coma and according to my source, it's not coming out of it anytime, soon. "He's gone on to other things" my source said, "He's not done anything in a while."
That's for sure. The topmost post is dated "2008-02-13" which was last year before Valentine's Day. It's too bad for the area around Lake Merritt, which came to adopt the site in a way, if only because Jim Ratiff, the founder, had collected a group of some of Oakland's most involved Lake citizens.
But as happens with blogs from time to time, the people lose interest. A blog must be updated each day just to keep fresh. And that's the problem. Jim's site was more of a website than a blog, which causes more work just to update. I can see why he may have tired of the whole effort: he used the wrong kind of platform.
If you're going to do this you have to make it easy on yourself. I think it's too bad that the online publication just sits there, but then it's a good foundation for an idea I have...
That's for sure. The topmost post is dated "2008-02-13" which was last year before Valentine's Day. It's too bad for the area around Lake Merritt, which came to adopt the site in a way, if only because Jim Ratiff, the founder, had collected a group of some of Oakland's most involved Lake citizens.
But as happens with blogs from time to time, the people lose interest. A blog must be updated each day just to keep fresh. And that's the problem. Jim's site was more of a website than a blog, which causes more work just to update. I can see why he may have tired of the whole effort: he used the wrong kind of platform.
If you're going to do this you have to make it easy on yourself. I think it's too bad that the online publication just sits there, but then it's a good foundation for an idea I have...
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