Vita.mn … Good for you or not?
Star Tribs online venture to reach the young and vibrant is Vita.mn, a companion to the weekly print version. They push and pull (online tools for saving, tagging, rating, reviewing, list building) info for the music, arts, movie, bar, club, food and “all that jazz scene” in the Twin Cities. I came across it early last fall but haven’t been drawn back to it until I saw thew print version (free) in the entry way of where I ate lunch Friday. I decided to peruse the online version again and see if there were things that might be worth learning from for FindBuffalo.
I enjoyed some of the collections, especially the Overrated Restaurants (I agree on Chino - overrated). Users also get Karma points for their participation. Some people love that type of validation. For some strange reason the site doesn’t click with me. The design and layout is fine, the content generated by users is good … but I’m still disconnected from loving the site for some reason I can’t totally define yet. In searching some blogs I found both some lovers and haters of the site. MNSpeak.com had some interesting comments/banter, mostly down on VitaMN on the post Star Tribune Launches Vita.mn whereas some other users/visitors liked what they saw including AllFourSeasons and Yelvingtons (Steve Yelvington actually put the Strib online back in 1994 as editor | article).