Its not that I am a windows mobile fanboy (I use both a HTC touch diamond and an Iphone) and i am certainly not an apple fanboy (although I just replaced my desktop PC for a Mac). I have been a daily reader of PPCT since its beginning, and while I have looked in on the other thoughts sites they never really caught my full attention.
Why dont you just develop the Thoughts Media site in to a full gadget website covering all 5 ?
On a side note, is there a Thoughts Media RSS feed, that would include all the sites (including this new one)? That way I'd only have to maintain one RSS subscription for all the "Thoughts" sites and (hopefully) there wouldn't be too many duplicate posts as there are now from subscribing to the mulitple individual feeds. Thanks!
We do have a merged RSS feed (which I have to update with Apple Thoughts now actually), but Feedburner (nor our XML system) isn't smart enough to eliminate duplicates. The number of duplicate items (like today announcing AT) is pretty low though, hopefully it's not too irritating.
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I'm not gonna play that game. My goal is simple: Provide an honest trustworthy site with a great community behind it and let it grow as organically as possible with no linkbaiting or hit-whoring. If I can accomplish that, I'll be very happy, and I think the community will be better off for it.
I'm looking forward to it! I like Apple products, but I'm not a fanboy. There are very few sites that walk that walk. Most of my favorite Apple blogs are way too fanboy-ish and are often misinformed about the corresponding Microsoft products. This is coming from someone who owns a PBG4, an iMac, a Mac Mini, three AirPorts, uses a MBP at work, and bought both the iPhone and iPhone 3G. (And, obviously, needs help.)
Go, Vincent, go! If I may ask, who's the team you've assembled?
But fanboi I am not! I like Apple products, but have some serious issues with the company (mainly it's fanatical control and refusal to acknowledge issues, although that is changing somewhat). But that being said, I can't see leaving OS X to go back to Windows (I do dual boot with Vista on two of my three Macs, mainly for a couple of things that the Mac really can't do).
Can you find 10,000 people exactly like you? That's exactly the kind of community I want to see flourish here.
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Why dont you just develop the Thoughts Media site in to a full gadget website covering all 5 ?
Too broad...too hard to do really well. The biggest reason why Digital Home Thoughts hasn't been the success I hoped it would be is that the topic area we cover is so broad. I personally like reading about digital cameras, video cameras, and digital audio topics, but there's evidently not enough people out there like me. The exception are sites like Engadget, but you have to be world-class to compete with a site like that, and that's not what I do best.
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Vincent and Jason - Welcome and thanks! Like others here, I'm no fanboy for the First Church of Apple. What I am, though, is someone always looking for sincere and thoughtful reporting and analysis. It's too bad to hear that Digital Media Thoughts is not getting the reach you anticipated, I love it and look at it several times a day - much like I do at Gizmodo (who can't hold a candle to Thoughtsmedia, IMHO).
I use Microsoft and Apple technology and I look forward to the same level of honesty and interest in the topic-at-hand.
We do have a merged RSS feed (which I have to update with Apple Thoughts now actually), but Feedburner (nor our XML system) isn't smart enough to eliminate duplicates. The number of duplicate items (like today announcing AT) is pretty low though, hopefully it's not too irritating.
GREAT! Where is that XML feed? (hopefully I haven't missed something painfully obvious).
i am stoked to see this site arise from the PPCT original. i own an iPod Touch and love the dang-blasted thing . . . iTunes and all! i am looking forward to checking this site out for all the info on my new favorite toy!
BTW - i own three PCs . . . one laptop running Windows XP, the other two - a laptop and a PC - run Vista. i also own an Axim X5 and an Axim X50v running WM 2003 SE
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