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November 26, 2005
A Paradigm Shift
Electro & Plankton just want to thank everyone for reading, leaving comments and sending those wonderful emails full of links and stories. And if you don't see something you've recommended posted, don't take any offense. It could be we already knew and just didn't wanna write about OR we loved it but somehow lost the email. SIGH. . . we are trying to become more organized. We are doing all we can short of throwing down the hammer of Scandinavian efficiency and Asian consistency.
On to the blog post topic. Electro has noticed a major shift in stats of the kind of people that visit this blog. Electro's original blog (some of you may remember as "tranism"), was heavily gay supported. In fact, nearly 80% of all visits were from gay blogs. Since the launch of electro^plankton, a paradigm shift has occurred. Less than 30% of all visits are from gay blogs. The majority of visits come from edu's, Europe and other tech/art/science blogs.
The only major change with this blog is the purposeful exclusion of scantily clad hot boys and personal tales of gay sutra. Have we lost appeal to our gay audience? Have we fallen out of favor with our original readers? Or is this shift only a natural causality of what we now choose to write about?
Let us know!
Posted by tranism at 12:55 AM | Permalink
Comments
Scantily clad hot boys, you say? I definitely think there's an empty niche of scantily clad hot boys holding delicious tech.
Fill that niche, I say. Fill it!
Posted by: Chris at November 26, 2005 5:05 AM
there's enough uninspired one-dimensional navel-gazing guy-gazing sites (like hangten).
electro^plankton is the pulse^oasis... a godsend.
i'd buy the Tshirt !
Posted by: A.J. at November 26, 2005 8:16 AM
Awwwww.... how cute are the cranky cyber goldfish... that should be the Tshirt AJ's talking about...
I also agree with Chris about hot boys holding tech... but since I never knew the "old" tranism I can't say that anything is missing... I just like seeing the pretties and the weirds you boys find. :D
Posted by: yaniboi at November 26, 2005 2:39 PM
I think you should see it as a sign of success in the broader blog market that you have leveled off to a more demographically diverse audience.
But don't worry, I'm here, and totally queer, and I'm still reading.
;)
Posted by: Aatom at November 29, 2005 8:57 AM
I love the swarm of the "other" blogs - but yours is a breath of fresh mentholated air. Keep taking it somewhere different. I'll be here all gay and stuff but loving looking at something shiney that isn't from sean cody.
:) love and stuff. trev.
Posted by: trev at November 29, 2005 6:47 PM
This is one of the better tech/design/cool shit blogs out there. That's what keeps me coming back. I tend not to skip posts while reading this site, but have a bad habit of skipping many posts on those other tech blogs. They just don't do a well enough job as you do finding stuff that's interesting.
Posted by: John at December 2, 2005 10:11 AM