Comments on: Lake Placid in the Finger Lakes

By: Finger Flakes

Finger Flakes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:36:27 +0000

It looks like I’m the one who doesn’t know geography – Goose Watch Winery has a tasting room in Romulus after all.

Hope some editors do make it to the Finger Lakes, though. I’d love to see more in the press about upstate New York’s wine regions.

By: Finger Flakes

Finger Flakes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:23:09 +0000

Looks like at least one writer thinks Lake Placid is in the Finger Lakes – or maybe the Finger Lakes is in Lake Placid.

Here, an editor from Woman’s Day magazine
talks about her trip to Mirror Lake Inn, with a stop at Goose Watch Wineyer on Main Street in Lake Placid.

The only problem? Goose Watch Winery is located in Romulus, in the Finger Lakes Region, five hours southwest!!!

http://dailywd.womansday.com/blog/travel/index.html

By: City Mouse

City Mouse — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:49:23 +0000

I had exactly the same reaction when reading through that stuff – Villa What? And at the simplest level – bad copy editing. But I guess the email creators simply swiped-and-pasted from whatever they found they wanted to include. No excuse for bad copy though. Especially coming from the state. I do agree with the move against paper mailing – and a clean up and reorg of the “I Love New York” website would be nice. I would call it a mess, but it’s certainly sprawling and hard to find your way around.

And as you mention, you would hope that someone would at least know that Lake Placid is not in the Finger Lakes.

(Glad I found your blog by the way!)

By: TourPro

TourPro — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:46:46 +0000

Eh, you know how it is when you start a new blog. There's always a 'content spurt'. I'm sure they'll pick-up again. The marketing folks down there have actually asked about such things as web design, Web 2.0, and such. It's really hard to change something like this, reasons given this year mostly relate to budget. Relatively speaking, tourism efforts at all levels are pretty poorly funded. How that money is spent is a whole other debate. Something I'd like to note, their site "The Beat", was created and launched in record time. No surprise, it's powered by Wordpress. This gives me hope. Until we have a real alternative to paper (Kindle ?) I think we'll continue to have a need for paper brochures, but most definitely those days are ending. Who prints what for who, why, and how many? I ask myself this everyday. Regarding blog changes. You know how it is when you get to moving the furniture around. Cool thing about WP, not only can you move stuff around, you can replace all the furniture anytime you want. I might upgrade today which could break everything!

By: Mrs. Mecomber

Mrs. Mecomber — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:54:07 +0000

Great new blog look, by the way!

I subscribed to ILoveNY emails a few weeks ago, but have only received one. :-p

The Internet is so ubiquitous now that printing 100 page brochures sets NY back about 30 years. There should be some kind of hub online– not a HUGE state-run hub that tries to be-all and do-all (like our legislature does). Rather, there should be a hub that points in certain directions to other smaller sites (like my own blog, heh heh) that offer various input on a huge variety of topics. I am actually building one, but it’s very small scale and small budget– not to mention very difficult. But that’s the best way.

But NY has a clasped fist and is trying to be a dictator in a world where everything is open source now. If they continue this suffocating policy, I expect other states to step up to the plate, and fast.