THE FRESNAN

Facebook: The Newest Venue For Fresno Nerds To Argue About The Fulton Mall

Let's face it, bloggers: Facebook pages have taken some juice from blogs. "Blogjuice", if you will (mmmmm, blog juice). Some of the classic blog wars that used to exclusively take place on some Fresno blog or Mindhub, now can take place on Facebook pages or Twitter.

Most active as of late is the Save The Fulton Mall page. A nice sized BLOG WAR!.... or um, Facebook War? happened the other day. It was sparked by a previous statement by Mayor Swearengin, calling the mall “a fundamentally flawed attempt to preserve what amounts to a failed urban renewal experiment that has bankrupted every effort to revitalize downtown Fresno for decades.” Scroll down the page and find it, it's worth the effort.

There are plenty more debates happening on the page too, some of them even positive. If you're like us, you'll want to follow the page just to see how Fresnans smarter than you, like to argue.

Seems though, no matter what the venue, we'll always be debating about the Fulton Mall. It's as Fresno as tacos and August heat.

Mindhub Report: A Downtown Fresno Question

You know we love your ass Mindhub, but sometimes you can be tedious and annoying to scroll through (especially if we get a few days behind). I wish somebody would put the more interesting stuff in a blog post form for an easier reading experience. Oh wait, WE have a blog, let's just do this ourselves then!

This is a thread on Mindhub started by, of all fucking people, Jerry "Captain Northeast Fresno" Duncan - too bad Jerry didn't think about downtown when he was a councilman, he might be mayor now. Jerry poses this question:

Everyone talks about revitalizing Downtown Fresno and there are lots of really good ideas. Ok, I challenge Hubbers to actually define a revitalized
Downtown Fresno. At what point will you say "Hey, Downtown Fresno is
revitalized". - Jerry Duncan

The hubbers respond:

A Mindhub gem

I subscribe to Mindhub, but I'm not sold on it.  I don't understand why people just don't use Fresno Famous instead.  It would be easier to read.  But I will save that for a different post.

This post's purpose is to shed some light on a great Mindhub post.  First, you might want to listen to a particular episode of the KFSR show "The Pulse".  The 2007 Year in Review episode.  Yeah, I know, I'm asking you to work a little bit but...you know what?  Forget about that.  The point is, the hosts were down on Fresno a bit, felt 2007 was a stagnate year and were perplexed that people are actually happy with Fresno.

These guys are smarter than me, so after listening to the show, I guess I had to agree with them.  And then, on Mindhub, Jamie Holt put Fresno in a different light...after this break: