No, I will not make you my homepage.
Steve Safran January 24th, 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?
6 Comments Add your own
1. Joel Price | January 25th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I would love to see a screen capture of your Google Reader page. Mine seems to be a mess.
2. discreet_chaos | January 25th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
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.
3. Jason | January 25th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Me too. I can’t get my arms around the google reader.
4. MSM | January 26th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I can’t get my arms around “irregardless.”
5. discreet_chaos | January 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
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.
6. milena | May 12th, 2007 at 8:02 am
i dont want this to be home page i want google to
thanks
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