Cross-blogging is somewhat like cross-dressing<\/b>, slightly perverted and rarely entertaining. The Patch \u201cVoices of the People\u201d is becoming community irrelevant.\u00a0 Decisions have been made to \u201cimport\u201d blogs from non-Fort Lee residents to apparently \u201cspice\u201d up the blogs. Apparently, Fort Lee bloggers are not prolific or interesting enough for the powers-to-be!<\/b><\/p>\n
Fort Lee \u201cVoices\u201d in the past few weeks has discussed Fort Lee history; BOE issues; and Fort Lee personalities. In the course of ten days, these local blogs have been quickly displaced by the ludicrously prolific NNJ family blogs on pork chops, Sunday dinners, Zinc mines (repeat blog?) and \u201cA Dutch Farm Adventure in Fair Lawn\u201d<\/b>, parenting: \u201cleaving your kids alone\u201d, parenting: \u201cthe right age for a cellphone\u201d.<\/i>\u00a0 There is a disguised advertisement by Joseph Young, a chiropractor out of Riverdale, NJ<\/b>; a plug for a \u201chealing gemstone jewelry\u201d store in Pompton Lakes, <\/b>NJ; a blatant advertisement by Susan Donnelly, LCSW, a therapist out of Ridgewood, NJ<\/b>, a major commercial from Tammy Vallar, an interior designer in Franklin Lakes, NJ<\/b>, and another disguised advertisement from T.J. Spizzo, a financial advisor fromSaddle Brook, NJ<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The Fort Lee Patch has now become a \u201cpatchwork\u201d, a network of \u201cblogger-salesmen\u201d from all over North Jersey with questionable motives for the writing of their blogs. Are they really giving opinions to stimulate community interest or just trying to enhance public awareness of their profession to increase sales? And if The Patch is going to encourage this type of blogging, should it not be for Fort Lee<\/b>businesses?<\/p>\n
The real solution may be \u201cTruth in Advertising<\/strong>“! The Patch should seriously consider alternatives such as\u201d: (1) a separate area for this type of \u201cSales-Blogging<\/b>\u201d, (2) restricting this type of blogging to \u201clocal businesses\u201d or (3) at the very least, label it \u201cAdvertisement\u201d, <\/b>so the reader knows the true nature of the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cross-blogging is somewhat like cross-dressing, slightly perverted and rarely entertaining. The Patch \u201cVoices of the People\u201d is becoming community irrelevant.\u00a0 Decisions have been made to \u201cimport\u201d blogs from non-Fort Lee residents to apparently \u201cspice\u201d up the blogs. Apparently, Fort Lee bloggers are not prolific or interesting enough for the powers-to-be! Fort Lee \u201cVoices\u201d in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}