What do you make of this?

Reg

[Finsbury Park People](http://www.finsburyparkpeople.co.uk) Almost all the posts are by some woman called Karen Kemble. I'm not a fan. It feels uneasy.

ADGS

Useful to know that about the Canonbury Tavern reopening, if nothing else. But the site design is horribly busy.

Ian

The site is "Copyright © 2009 Associated Northcliffe Digital Limited".
It's the Daily Mail publishers' online operation - set up commercial websites with a community newspaper feel, get local people to populate it with content (for free) and make some cash. Unlike this site, which we all populate for free and costs the guys that run it. (Andy, Dave - what is going wrong? If only you had a second hand car section ...)

I agree that the site looks a bit busy - very like an online newspaper site unsurprisingly as it has to leave space for ads and revenue generating options. I guess Karen Kemble is paid by Associated to try and kick start the site with articles.

Nothing against people trying to run a business but if it isn't on here I doubt it will be on there. I'm quite happy with the online community here, it serves my needs and tastes perfectly.

Ian

Could be this Karen Kemble of course, difficult to tell from the picture on the local website: http://www.and.co.uk/who/karenkemblediaz2

ShaunG

Two of the posters discuss Arsenal's opening game, and both say "Come on you REDS". How likely is that? All fake I suspect.

David

"Come on you REDS" sounds a bit soccerball-ish. This is the thing though Ian - we're working on some classified pages for local businesses but we don't want to infringe on the site too much with commercialism. As for second hand cars, there's already the [free classifieds](http://www.stroudgreen.org/classifieds) - our idealism will no doubt keep us skint.

unaesthetic

it could be a clever SEO tactic to suck in footyball fans?

neilf

It looks like a localised version of <a href="http://www.localpeople.co.uk">http://www.localpeople.co.uk</a>.

So, for example, <a href="http://www.westonsupermarepeople.co.uk">http://www.westonsupermarepeople.co.uk</a>; looks exactly the same, but with slightly different content (probably, the site is so uninspiring I can't be bothered to look).

I don't think you should worry too much about putting adverts for local businesses on here -- people want to know about them after all.

graeme

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