MDC Website Retraction
In an awesome display of either the power of blogging or the curse of bad timing, my post from earlier this morning which slammed the Midland Development Corporation for its delay in getting its website up proved to be eerily coincidental with the rollout of said site.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I've removed the earlier post, as it's no longer relevant (thereby highlighting one of the advantages of blogging over traditional print journalism).
Go see the new site at www.midlandtexasedc.org. And, yes, I did include the incorrect URL in my post this morning, for those of you who tried to follow it and got nowhere. All-in-all, that was one post that was better left unpublished from the get-go.
The new site is fairly impressive, although you have to look pretty closely to figure out it's for Midland, Texas and not Midland, Michigan or some other Midland. I'd advise them to expand their title meta tag to be more descriptive. Thankfully, they seem to have lost the nav-related sound effects, although they may just not work on a Mac.
Update - 4:16 pmThey're messing with our minds, folks. The new site is now gone, and the old-and-busted is back up again. Apparently they're beta testing...only they're doing it live. Interesting approach, I must admit. Anyway, I will no longer predict just exactly what you'll get when you visit the URL shown above. However, if you really want to get a sneak preview, here's the URL of the beta site: www.midlandtexasedc.org/betadefault.asp
Update - 4:57 pmThe beta site is now live at the main URL, but who knows for how long. You're on your own from here on out!
Hope they have a good server side spam filter. I''m surprised to see any professional site still using the "spam magnet" tags
Posted by: Wallace at January 29, 2004 10:31 PMWonder if Chicago knows we're using their slogan? Not to mention Stamford, CT...and Portland, OR...and Ypsilanti, MI...and Dallas, TX...and...well, you can google the phrase as well as me.
Well, in all fairness, it is hard to come up with a unique catch-phrase.
Posted by: Eric at January 29, 2004 10:35 PMThis is a little bit off topic. All you say may be true, but for someone more interested in the content than the process (okay, make you're own judgments here, I can take it), the demographic information at the MDC site is interesting. For example, there are apparently 10,675 households, almost 25% of the 43,400 total in Midland, occupied by only one person. I don't know how this compares with the nation as a whole, but it tells me the we (Midlanders, Texans, Americans) certainly value our personal space.
Posted by: George at January 31, 2004 09:40 AMAbout the publisher
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