Feh, Charlie

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else have trouble with the card-readers in the Davis T station this morning, or have I purchased a faulty LinkPass from Store 18? The readers on every gate said "Not Enough Value" though I paid $59 for this damn thing two days ago. It worked until this morning.

For you wireless nomads

[azores.livejournal.com]

Au Bon Pain, in the Harvard Vanguard building, now has free wireless.

Mr. Crepe now open

[beezy515.livejournal.com]

It appears that Mr. Crepe is now open for business.

Attention

[c-m-i.livejournal.com]

Davis Square currently not on fire. The sun will set at 4:41pm this afternoon. McDonalds is currently open. Post of email sent by alderman to follow, at length, behind cut.

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Where do we go from here?

[komos.livejournal.com]

A couple of days ago, plumtreeblossom and I began a conversation about the davis_square community and some of the changes that have been happening as the list has grown and various folks have been figuring out ways to make use of the space in new ways. As you may recall, I opened a breakaway community (davissquare) a little over a year ago. Though that space has remained largely dormant, it's never actually been deleted. This would be only tangentially relevant except that over the past few weeks, I've received several requests to reopen davissquare and retool it to be a moderated posting community.

There's a certain irony in this since davissquare was originally founded in response to moderated posting being briefly enforced here, but I can understand and have shared some of the frustrations that have been highlighted. Before considering a radical move, I brought concerns to plumtreeblossom so the mods would at least be in on the loop that there was some behind-the-scenes grumbling. She suggested that I share with the community as a whole so everyone can speak out and offer some input as to the direction we should be headed.

The complaints that I've received have been about a handful of things:

1) Rants that are at best tangentially related to Davis Square and really would be better placed in private journals;

2) Minutiae about restaurant & business openings and closings;

3) Repeated requests for the same services; and

4) Members who take it upon themselves to police the list or who otherwise use the space as a personal sounding board.

Weirdly enough, we've not really had issues with marketing.

From here, it'd be good if we could begin a conversation about how we'd like to use the space and how we'd like to see the space used. I'm hoping that there might be some simple solutions that we can come up with that will help this space remain useful and usable.

Diesel Cafe opening second location in Union Square

[ron_newman]

According to a newsletter that I just received from Union Square Main Streets, Diesel Cafe has begun construction on a second location at 11 Bow Street in Union Square, the former Asian-American Bank building. Also, Zeitgeist Gallery is moving into the second floor of that building.