I like the idea of plastering the Cuyahoga County Commissioner's East 9th and Euclid construction fence with the graffiti that citizens post on a website. Sure, there are a million other (and largely better) ways to spend that money, but this remains an interesting idea.
I walked past this location yesterday (attempting to use RTA on the Euclid Corridor to get home) and saw that most of the posters from earlier in the year had blown away. As far as media goes, these posters become interesting social objects: I walk by, note the "checkthefence.us" domain, go home (hopefully by RTA), remember to type it into my browser, read up on the construction, create some graffiti, go back (hopefully by RTA), see my poster!
Except for the wind's impact (Oh, the irony of the first poster's image!), nothing seems to have changed. Not even the website seems to be getting much use -- there aren't any images or comments accessible from what I could find poking around. Poking around yielded a few other interesting items as well. Why did the Commissioner's feel the need to register both the checkthefence.us and checkthefence.com domains? Who is John Dowling and does he know that on all the pages, one of the links ("About the Construction") is just text? Does it mean anything that the contents of that page are all gibberish?
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of what to do with the Breuer (I'm in favor of keeping), wouldn't you like to know what our Commissioners think about it? About the Construction would be such a place. Since the links to this page don't work from the site's other pages, I can only assume that what I found is a stub of a page to be used when the Commissioners' plans are coherent enough to communicate to the rest of the public. (In case they update it later, this is what it looked like this morning.)
