Info on Alameda Point
Not an article can be written or cited about SunCal these days without what is becoming an almost ubiquitous comment posting from alamedapointinfo.com. The site is totally anti-SunCal, but I wanted to give the creators props as an example of moderated criticism that has so far been missing from the discussion of Alameda Point and island development.
Nobody takes credit for the website, “We are an informal group of Alameda friends and neighbors,” though the authors are not difficult to identify from both emails making their way around the interwebs and from the site’s registry which lists the site’s domain server as supercleanengine.com (hello Mr. Boeger!). Anyway, I’ve been meaning to give a head nod to the site for a while. And though I think a lot of the “facts” that are presented are more accurately called “opinions,” it’s nice to see some folks working to air their concerns in a less than hyperbolic fashion.
Recalls and lawsuits, etc. have grabbed my recent attention, but a guest column in the Alameda Sun by Ani Dimusheva (representing alamedapointinfo.org) recently crossed my Google Reader and I was reminded of a letter to ADN that she wrote two years ago:
“I received several emails urging me to complete a survey “to add [my] voice in order to strengthen the community involvement in the development of Alameda Point.” The survey is accessed through the website alamedapointvision.org. The website states that it is created “by and for Alamedans”;
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I can’t imagine how the results of this survey will be used. Or can I? The survey is nothing but the vision of HOMES in a Q&A form.…I do not appreciate their attempt to pass it off as the “neutrally” surveyed opinion of Alameda residents, bendable either way. So I didn’t take the survey.”
Of course she was wrong then, it wasn’t a HOMES website and the results of the two surveys and resulting vision were created with input from over 300 individuals. But I had to enjoy the irony of Ani starting a “neutrally” sounding website that is nothing but a non-neutral, anti-SunCal site after her previous publicly stated concerns and consternation of such imagined actions.
Nice site, but amusing nonetheless.
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notadave
August 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am
It’s actually .com In order to be .org they would, you know, have to be an actual organization.
Spanky M
August 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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It’s definitely .org.
It just doesn’t work without www. in front.
AD
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Dear John,
the guest editorial in the Sun did not REPRESENT, but REFERENCED
alamedapointinfo.com. It’s a site worth reading.
On the issue of neutrality, you are comparing apples and oranges
again. Unlike HOMES, AlamedaPointInfo is not conducting a biased
survey which they would later use to advance their point of view. The
site is mostly a collection of news articles and documents—readers can agree with the conclusions drawn or reach their own based on facts.