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Not to be a downer but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be [silly sounding domain]/blog. It doesn't lend to credibili

by smokinn 15y ago

Not to be a downer but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be [silly sounding domain]/blog. It doesn't lend to credibility and I'm sure I'm not the only one that given two similar titles but one has (hizook.com) next to it will click the one with the more serious sounding domain.

beambot 15y ago
Hizook is no more "silly sounding" than many other household-name web domains that you probably use on a daily basis (and it has special meaning to me). The reason the articles are at /blog is because I'm developing hardware products for the site. (I'm not a "journalist", I'm a hardware hacker with a PhD in robotics.) As to credibility... Hizook blows Engadget out of the water. We're already well-known by most academic and professional roboticists, and the discussions on the site do not revolve around "robot overlords." We've been called "one of the top robotics blogs" by IEEE Spectrum, where I'm also a contributing author. Oh, and the HN guidelines specifically state to: "cite the original sources." Respectfully, your feedback is trite. I suggest checking out our site's articles, and if you'd like to continue this discourse, then please feel free to email me (see HN profile).
moe 15y ago
but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be What the hell? Are we judging content by URLs now? And engadget adds credibility? Last time I checked they merely copy/paste an excerpt and frame it with their ads. Are we talking about the same engadget? Also whatever happened to: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."? Guess where I quoted that from?
developer9 15y ago
People in glass houses should not throw stones, smokinn.com. However, silly is unimportant. The host/domain primarily just needs to be memorable. Secondarily, it must be entered easily, not offensive, not unrelated to the subject content, and easily found via search. Then it is "good".
polyfractal 15y ago
Yeah, because Gizmodo and Engadget and TechCrunch and BetaKit and ZDNet and Slashdot all sound so much more professional than Hizook. My eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my head.

by smokinn 15y ago

beambot 15y ago

Hizook is no more "silly sounding" than many other household-name web domains that you probably use on a daily basis (and it has special meaning to me). The reason the articles are at /blog is because I'm developing hardware products for the site. (I'm not a "journalist", I'm a hardware hacker with a PhD in robotics.) As to credibility... Hizook blows Engadget out of the water. We're already well-known by most academic and professional roboticists, and the discussions on the site do not revolve around "robot overlords." We've been called "one of the top robotics blogs" by IEEE Spectrum, where I'm also a contributing author. Oh, and the HN guidelines specifically state to: "cite the original sources." Respectfully, your feedback is trite. I suggest checking out our site's articles, and if you'd like to continue this discourse, then please feel free to email me (see HN profile).

moe 15y ago

but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be What the hell? Are we judging content by URLs now? And engadget adds credibility? Last time I checked they merely copy/paste an excerpt and frame it with their ads. Are we talking about the same engadget? Also whatever happened to: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."? Guess where I quoted that from?

developer9 15y ago

People in glass houses should not throw stones, smokinn.com. However, silly is unimportant. The host/domain primarily just needs to be memorable. Secondarily, it must be entered easily, not offensive, not unrelated to the subject content, and easily found via search. Then it is "good".

polyfractal 15y ago

Yeah, because Gizmodo and Engadget and TechCrunch and BetaKit and ZDNet and Slashdot all sound so much more professional than Hizook. My eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my head.