I’m sure that we’re all still in the morning stage after losing our beloved ThreadWatch, although there’s a new site in town - and I’m not just on the rebound!
Threadwatcher.com is a sparky new SEM/internet news portal launched by Earl Grey (Syndk8), which takes a lot of influences from Threadwatch and in my personal opinion, many from The Register as well. Now apart from SearchEngineWatch (like our new look?), Threadwatch and The Register were/are my top must-visits of the day. Combining them into one juicy SEO/internet geekfest is just, well… a dream come true. It’s not the busiest site in the world in terms of visitors, stories or comments at the moment, although it’s down to us as an industry to change that.
My only concerns:
- Keeping content fresh and interesting requires a big commitment from the editors.
- Although Threadwatch has always been “edgy”, Syndk8 is way beyond that. Threadwatcher.com may not need to appeal to the mainstream SEM industry, but at least has to be inviting to the typical ThreadWatch reader. Anyone who has read Syndk8 knows what the language and tone is like (which is fine for its audience), but I don’t think that such a writing style will go down well with Threadwatcher’s target audience.
- No geeky gadget section! I’ll make the site my browser homepage if a gadget tab is added
Anyway, take a look, register your username on the site and have a browse around. I think you’ll grow to like it and I look forward to seeing how it develops.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I thought TWer reminded me more of ElReg than the old TW… a more broad topic base than TW ever had… and obviously lacking the old “kommunity” that TW had built up.
July 27th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Thank you for your kind comments about the site.
We are working and thinking very hard on how we can make it into something special with its own individual and style.
The site is very slowly getting a personality but i think there is a lot of work ahead to make it something for the contributors to be proud of and be honored to be part of.
I am sure we will get there though.
July 29th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Funny! Not my intention to make it look like theregister but by coincidence i did work for TW2 who built theregister.
I don’t like the way the sites looks, but i am no designer, and we’ve all seen syndk8 to know Earl knows less than me, so he thinks it’s great.
Loads of features i would like to add to threadwatcher but until mick does his share i am on strike
July 31st, 2007 at 11:19 am
Well, I’m glad your boat is floating. I post occasionally on Threadwatcher and I hope you continue to find some items of interest. I know what you mean by Syndk8 being ‘beyond edgy” and I don’t think Threadwatcher is going that route.
Earl has been around and has his finger on the pulse of the community at large and that’s the targeted audiance. (I think lol).
later,
Bomps