(e:wnymenu) , I accidentally sent you this as an email before I edited it sorry for the incovenience.

Thanks for signing up, glad to see you'l be sticking around. It's always fascinating to read about business as it develops. I think your idea is great, if you ever can combine it with a multi-restaurant delivery system, it would be great, I know I would for sure use it all the time.

By the way, I'm the programming director of the elmwood site. Thank you for your interest in the epeeps restaurant review engine. Unfortunately, as part of my non-business mission, I have decided to not work in conjunction with businesses or people promoting businesses.

You and I have a much different approach to information awareness on the web. It's my personal feeling that the top down business model is dead as sitcoms, but I am sure I can be proved wrong.

I have made this decision to protect the freedom of information written on the journals and to elimnate corporate influence on the journals. Not that businesses can't have their own journals, just that we don't depend on businesses for funding or advertising or share projects with businesses.

An example of why this is important, can be seen in the recent criticism of pano's for their plans to demolish the atwater house on many people's journal. If we had accepted advertising from pano's we would have had a conflict in interest. To prevent this type of problem we run all of our e-services from donations and the hard work of a few individuals.

As for the engine itself, it will not be based on a single persons review but on the review of many locals eating at the same place. Similar to voting. Our system would of course not be limited to only positive reviews because that would be biased, the opposite of objective.