CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

I am not wealthy. I own a very small home located without a view of the sound. I am opposed to this Wind Farm for the "not in my back yard" reasons, and I am not ashamed to admit that nor will I let another shame me. I am not a political figure or celebrity. I have been on Cape Cod every summer since I was born and I now, adult, live here all year. In the 1960s I was in a baby carriage with my fam on the beach that faces the Nantucket Sound. I always read Cape Wind will provide the equivalent to 75 percent of the energy needed for Cape Cod. If the people of Cape Cod would benefit, by perhaps minimizing the cost of their home energy use by an equal 75 percent, then perhaps a view-for-farm exchange could be made. Why CapeWind can not accept voices of all types of people, residents, visitors, rich and poor, establishing a reasonable discourse regarding their valid concerns and advantages of this project. Cape Wind is targeting their published books and public disagreements to rich people and the poor's concerns are not part of the conversation. CapeWind needs to be a bit nicer to all.

I meant to say a buy --not a bug -- would be great. Anything to shake things up and get these people OFF their inflated egos, online techically savvy--instead of going backward, using the cheap corporate ware, poor graphics and little gimics that can be developed and found by four year olds on myspace. Perhaps a buy by Murdoch will inspired the CCTimes staff to be both responsive and respectful to both online and print audiences. Lord knows, I don't think Murdoch buying would lessen the quality of the CCTimes products.

CapeCodToday.com and it's contributors may want to consider ramping up to supercede the CCTimes while CCTimes is looking at the birdie or seagull in the sky.

Have you seen the re-design of their website? I say it is time for CapeCodToday.com, to take the lead right now, their contributors are better. COOL is NOT user-friendly, the graphic design is horrible, the navigation stinks. I am very tired of the ombudsman taking up editorial space, apologizing the how much the newspaper stinks, but NEVER admitting any wrongdoing, and blaming readers or web visitors instead. Their paper and staff are demeaning. The newspaper industry is on the rocks, and the CCTimes has had a free ride and their paper's and online is getting worse by the day. A bug would be great. The Cape Cod Times content creators get quotes incorrectly, and yet, their writers, editorial, admin staff, and advertising are WAY too comfortable thinking they are professional and talented. They do a great disservice to many by mis-informing, getting quotes and facts incorrect. The world, and Internet and even India is full of better reporting, more honest business/advertising people, provide better news and advertising products and give better service to the Cape community.

Need to start a new blog for Media Watch regarding the latest Cape Cod Times and Cape Cod Online websites. I was too disgusted with them both, that I didn't have nerve to give them feedback on their own site(s). Looks like they used some very cheesy and cheap software to put those sites together, and I couldn't find any news on either, but had to battle through community postings of kitty kats. I wonder if they put these two sites together and spent money and resources, to improve their newspaper cirulation. I don't think I'll go back there again. I say, CapeCodToday, you've got more going on than those publishers, so I hope you can snag their web visitors!! The sites look like, and function like, no one has any web savvy whatsoever over there. I am embarrassed.