Comments on: Gizmodo Simplified and Challenges Issued

By: Gekko

Gekko — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:34:38 +0000

Sentimental and nostalgic. Great. Zachotnah.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:42:06 +0000

Good post Jacob! I have absolutely nothing against people making money off their blogs – some of these guys work really hard and give us a lot of value – but the clutter of adverts destroys the look and feel of a website.

As for the RSS debate, I don’t think that’s going to prevent people from going to the website – I use RSS more for notification than a website replacement. There’s a danger of blogs becoming anonymized if we can’t associate them with a site.

Anyway, I had a look recently at Boing Boing – I’m not a fan of the site, simply because of the ad content. What do you guys think?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:37:38 +0000

Jacob,

Try the gadget blog that’s linked to my name, maybe it’s a bit better. Maybe not.

If you can offer any advice, we’ll listen, as we’re not tied to any advertisers.

Thanks for keeping up the fine work. We need all the WP news we can get.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:57:35 +0000

I subscribe to the RSS feed for Engadget, and have onlt bothered to visit the site a few minutes ago when I read this post. Yeah, it's a bit cluttered, but with a lot of people reading their news sites via RSS, the design begins to matter less. Simplebits recently posted an article regarding this phenomenom.

By: James

James — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:57:06 +0000

I use the Adblock plugin for Firefox, so I don’t really have a problem with ads. I know that isn’t the case for everyone, but I’m simply noting.