Dear readers,
Yesterday I asked you to give your opinion on the need to cover the rumors from more brands with mirrorless camera systems.
As you understood from my comments it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to “expand” 43rumors coverage on other brands. I started 43rumors I wanted to have a place for FourThirds-MicroFourThirds only.
But I have been surprised to see how many people need a place for general mirrorless rumors and news. So my idea is to create a new mirrorlessrumors.com website and comunity! The website should not only contain the unique rumors from our sources but also become a dynamic network with people sharing reviews, comparisons and tests.
What do you think?
18 Responses
Great news!
You should open EVIL-rumors.com or something like that.
Just something than can gather different rumors (posted by the users) from the web (43rumors, SonyAlphaRumors, etc.) š
Way to go! Maybe liverumors.com would be a good name :). It’s not taken!
Mate you’ll be in my rss feed.
well it could be wonderful, as I feel that too often you HAVE to report rumors about other brand, i. e. when yoyu talk about the new sony-gf1, or the compaireson between epX-gX-samsung nx ecc.
if you can manage it, I think it will soon became a very interesting site. But what do you about the presence of other site, like nikon-rumors or k-rumors ecc..I mean, should the new website be a simple “summary” of the most important rumors, something like an hall of fame of rumors, or maybe you’d like to “win” the competition for the coolest rumor website? š
That’s a better idea – adding mirrorless to 43rumors seems to be to be “devaluing” normal 4/3 in favour of the headlong rush to micro 4/3 (at least until Olympus do actually drop DSLRs )
There is clearly a degree of crossover.
DO IT! š
Just great! It would be wonderful! Just do that!
It is a good idea and a good time to do it!
43rumors is really great site, I hope new evil rumors site will be on the same quality level!
Good luck! š
Haha… evilrumours.com, I love it!
I don’t understand why a seperate rumor site for each brand is needed, and I don’t understand why you want to differentiate between mirrorless, dSLR and P&S either. I’d much rather have one site for everything, and higher quality on the content. Now it looks like krumors, sonyrumors, fouthirdsrumors, nikonrumors and canonrumors publish absolutely every rumor regardless og how farfetched teh contetn is just to get something new on their sites.
I think you should keep 43rumors domain, as the name of the first system of mirrorless cameras, even though you talk
about other brands, keeping the name as is and expading to other EVIL cameras.
Regards,
Nacho
I’d say definitely keep the 43rumors.com domain, but have it point to a section on your mirrorless site that just talks about 4/3 and micro 4/3.
That makes me ask myself why I read your site…..yeah why ?
Um, I think it’s something like ‘I like you because you are you’.
I think it is silly the way you have multiple sites, all variations on the same blog — 43rumors, sonyalpharumors, k-rumors, etc.
My suggestion is make ONE site, with tabs across the top to change views between brands. (That way, you will drastically cut down the time you spend each week remodeling each site, and people won’t have to go from site to site.) You’ll just have one site, with tabs for the viewer to choose what brand’s rumors they see.
Also, by having one site, you can easily add new tabs when something other than the usual brands or styles are introduced — an “EVIL” tab, for instance.
All of this is easy since this is blog-based. You just put each post in whatever “category” or categories it applies to, and then the tab selection decides what categories’ posts are shown.
Fantastic idea, fantastic domain. Go for it!
Just as an aside – never announce a domain before you’ve got it – there are a lot of domain sharks out there š
There is a site, that at least tries to combine all rumors. ItĀ“s photorumors.com
I think, they are not as good as 43rumors, but itĀ“s what youĀ“re looking for. I donĀ“t need sites like that. I donĀ“t care for Canon oder Nikon.
Do NOT NOT NOT create a separate site for other fourthird brand rumors. The name of this site is 43rumors, not OlyandPanyOnly43rumors (you just need to change the title of the page to remove Oly and Pany). Perhaps the initial intent of this site was to only support Oly and Pany rumors, but since you did not mis-name the site in such a way, and since change and adapting are always a must, KEEP this site for ALL 43 rumors, no matter what brand. Or do what someone above suggested and create one big rumors site with separate tabs for each niche.
The only reason I could think of you creating a separate site for other brands would be because you made an agreement to Oly and Pany not to include other brands here, but I see other camera ads here so I do not think that is the case.
Before you jump in the decision, please meditate on logid for a bit. Best decision, in my opinion, is big site for all rumors – second would be just to keep all brands of 43s at this site.
Thanks for listening.
Hi,
I’m a regular reader. I’d definitely prefer just one site. You already cover non 4/3 rumors here, so really you’d just be expanding that a bit. If you created another site, you’re going to be cross-posting from time to time, and it will just dilute your readership, and create extra work for you. I’d rather just check everything from one site! The domain name is less important than the content!
Thank you,
Jon B.