Comments on: I think the noise is taking over

By: Fightingfriends » How My Links List Works

Fightingfriends » How My Links List Works — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:53:19 +0000

[...] Kyle Neath at Warpspire feels the same way and points out where they went wrong. Ironically, Warpspire is on the path to list addition and this is how that works. [...]

By: Ben Lilley

Ben Lilley — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:46:11 +0000

The funny thing is, I have been thinking this recently. I keep opening the site expecting to read another gem, only to find another short post or just an image/advertisement.

And to think, it was probably the best blog around :(

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:25:28 +0000

I agree. If I wanted to see job listings I'd subscribe to the jobs feed.

I unsubscribed from them a while back, but then resubscribed within a few weeks. I just had this panging feeling that I was missing some hype and needed it in my life again.

By: Programmers don’t have girlfriends? — at jonathanish

Programmers don’t have girlfriends? — at jonathanish — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:13:41 +0000

[...] Jun 13th 2006 Programmers don’t have girlfriends?Kyle Neath: For several years, Iâ€™ve been an avid fan of Signal Vs. Noise, a blog run by those great guys in Chicago known as the 37 Singals. [...]

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:43:52 +0000

It is a strange thing, because technically they are leveraging their popularity to earn a few extra dollars. I am not saying that I wouldn’t do exactly the same thing, or have in the past, or won’t in the future. But I do agree. I think that simply putting advertising on their blog, or opening up a job board itself as a service would be cool. - But somehow just the way they went about pulling these things off seems, I don’t know, out of place.

Hats off to them for making money left and right, but they may have done it at the sacrifice of those that truly believed in some of the things they pioneered…

By: Olav

Olav — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:55:34 +0000

Good point, they seem to be working against their own teachings. I’ll consider the wame move you did…

By: Jakob S

Jakob S — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:26:27 +0000

Funny thing, I briefly thought about unsubscribing from SvN but decided against for old times sake, and the next entry to show in my reader was this one.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:55:56 +0000

LOL very nicely written post Kyle, great humour!

I couldn’t agree more with you on the decline in quality on SvN… I unsubscribed about 3-4 months ago for the same reasons as you. After a few weeks of sifting through crap posts for the occasional diamond in the rough I’d had enough.

By: Jim Whimpey

Jim Whimpey — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:46:50 +0000

I completely agree. I’ve been reading it for about a year now, once reading every word of every post. Different to most people, I use Firefox’s open in tabs for my daily reads instead of using a feed reader. For the last month of so, even if I see a new post I haven’t read I just continue straight past, on my X clicking way.

With other sites I let this happen for about three months, giving them a chance to re-prove themselves to me, if they don’t the bookmark’s deleted, Signal vs. Noise is well on it’s way.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:49:26 +0000

Yeah, I hear you on this one. It’s almost as if somehow they blog just because they have to, and not for the love of telling people about their craft or frankly, whatever is on their mind. I think it needs a shot of personality, honestly.