What constitutes the “Triangle”?
North Carolina April 10th, 2008A friend of mine mentioned a new online site to me called mync.com that is supposed to be “from and for the Triangle Community“. Curiously enough, though, their definition of the triangle apparently includes Wake, Orange and Johnston counties but Durham is nowhere to be seen. Now perhaps they’re just in beta and will get to Durham at some point, but it makes no sense to me to say something is from the “Triangle Community” when you don’t include one of the corners of the Triangle.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I was watching CNN tonight (04/24/08) and Wolf Blitzer was talking about the “well-educated, liberal Research Triangle Park”. The graphic he displayed showed the Triangle extending all the way north to the Virginia border.
I know that the Research Triangle Regional Partnership (a working group led by RTI) considers the Triangle to include a great northern swath. Go to researchtriangle.org and click on “Counties” to see the map.
But regardless, Durham is definitely well within the boundaries of the Triangle.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Interesting. It looks like there is a Durham site active (perhaps in beta?) but it’s not linked anywhere. Go to http://durham.mync.com/site/durham to see the site.
Given the Media General ownership (they own NBC 17) and the presence of lots of NBC 17 content on the site, it looks like this is the hyperlocal news site that has been rumbled to be coming out of the TV station for some time.
PS — I just discovered your blog thanks to Valerie over at We Love Durham. Looks great — look forward to reading more!