Comments on: More Cleantech News!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:25:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: RobS

RobS — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:12:00 +0000

I think the more important stories summarised and discussed then followed by the remaining stories in a categorised list format is the best compromise

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Thanks for chiming in. Would be useful if more readers made it down here for that

I figured the straight lists wouldn’t be as popular, but wasn’t sure. will see if others chime in…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:23:00 +0000

I like the amount of stories, but I don’t like reading them in list format like you have them. Although you did at least categorize them a bit, thank you.
I do like the perspective you put on pieces as well. If you are simply going to throw the piece away and not write about it I’d still like to see a link anyway.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:06:00 +0000

i think that’s a little too complicated for our tech resources

but a simplified version of that is what we’re working on

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:38:00 +0000

What if you had a “more stuff” column on the side – list topics (wind, EVs, hydrogen, etc.) and let each tag lead to a page of brief descriptions and links.

New items could appear at the top of the list, letting people scan down only to where they were hitting things they had already seen.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:58:00 +0000

thanks for the comments. yeah, i thought it left a bit too much lacking. curious if others chime in and what they say.

also, have something in the works to put “quickies” in a separate feed/location (right sidebar) so that i can do that with more pieces without filling the main feed/column with short pieces in which we basically write an intro and lead people on to another article. (afraid it makes the site seem too shallow or something.)

basic problem (one of my biggest for a couple years now, i think) is that there are too many stories that i think we ‘should’ cover than we can actually cover (without paying writers in peanuts… in which case we wouldn’t hardly have writers… and without taking away ALL of my sleeping time :D). also, posting a lot of shorter pieces (more pieces, but less input on them) last month didn’t seem to work out too well. seemed that avg readership per post dropped…

hard dilemmas to solve.

appreciate any feedback you shoot my way on that and planning to conduct our 2nd annual reader survey soon as well…

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Perhaps the ones you want to comment on should go on the main page.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:04:00 +0000

For fast random access this is good but I like reading your take on the articles when you present them the other way. That does not go unappreciated.