http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/05/17/news/walker051708.txt
Walker’s latest venture seems a mixture of those two. It’s an online forum called RottenNeighbor.com, and it allows residents of a neighborhood to complain about the noise, dogs, midnight habits or lawn-mowing antics of the folks next door. Launched last summer, the site was first based entirely out of Walker’s UTC apartment until a portion was purchased by Attenunit, a venture capital firm, and most of the work moved to Austin, Texas.
From the site:
Rotten Neighbor is the first real estate search engine of its kind allowing you to rate and review good and bad neighbors before and after you move so you can make a smart real estate decision. How? By user contributed information on millions of neighbors and neighborhoods in Indiana and nationwide as well as helping you understand Granger neighborhood trends.
I was curious so I searched my hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana. And I found just a few reviews – some very mean, others were like this:
actually shovel your sidewalk in the snow when u have no shovel!
Some thoughts:
- Will folks rate libraries?
- Will library users want to access the site in libraries – they certainly should be able to!
- Shouldn’t this be added to our classes for the public on info literacy in this new world?