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No, I will not make you my homepage.

Posted by Steve Safran on January 24, 2007

There are still too many news sites out there with the exhortation to “Make Us Your Homepage.” No. My homepage is Google Reader. I aggregate hundreds of headlines from around the world, catered to my own interests. I get far more information about the world than I could from your site. I’m used to scanning headlines to pick out stories that interest me. It’s much easier than trying to wade through any news site. Instead of the “Make Us Your Homepage” strategy, you should offer to be a part of my homepage. Earn a few pixels of my attention. Earn the right to my subscription. You won’t do it with car accidents and house fires, so you better have some damn good custom options. You may win me over with a good RSS reader that is catered to my local tastes, too. I’d download it if it truly reflected my interests. Your site is on the right track if you can answer this question, truthfully, to yourself: Would I subscribe to my own RSS feed?

  • Joel Price

    I would love to see a screen capture of your Google Reader page. Mine seems to be a mess.

  • http://discreet-chaos.livejournal.com discreet_chaos

    I wish somebody would perfect a reader.

    I like Google’s thing because it throws everything in a line, irregardless of the source, as does Technorati’s, but I’d like to be able to nest folders for when I want to drill-down.

    Instead, I load some things into Google, some categories into Bloglines and I use my.yahoo and technorati for other stuff and that’s not even taking into consideration the my.nytimes and my.latimes, which are very similar in design.

    Needless to say, I have a tab-group, while I’d rather have a very functional single screen.

  • http://wcco.com/jasonblog Jason

    Me too. I can’t get my arms around the google reader.

  • MSM

    I can’t get my arms around “irregardless.”

  • http://discreet-chaos.livejournal.com discreet_chaos

    Hey MSM – My wife gives me a hard time for saying “ain’t” and just last night, she told me that I’m the only person she’s ever met who says “oftentimes”.

    We’ve been together for sixteen years.

  • milena

    i dont want this to be home page i want google to

    thanks