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TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » ScribbleSheet writes its own obituary — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:59:25 +0000

[...] a brave, but I’m afraid naive, attempt to reproduce the success of OhMyNews or Newsvine. As I wrote on their launch “I fear they will get nowhere near those sites”. Ndege told me then that Scribblesheet [...]

By: Kyle MacRae

Kyle MacRae — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:20:24 +0000

Good luck with this. Don’t forget to incentivise your users, which might be as simple as giving them a ’space’ and a warm, fuzzy feeling when they see their words published on the site — and might not.

By: Jay Adair

Jay Adair — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:35:51 +0000

Sounds a little naive, but good luck all the same.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:36:45 +0000

John/Scribblesheet - It’s a noble cause, giving people the opportunity to ’sound off’ on any topic. I just wonder if - in this incarnation at least - it’s a business.

By: ScribbleSheet

ScribbleSheet — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:17:49 +0000

Hey Mike,

A couple of responses

Firstly throwing your article on Newsvine is unlikey to help the writer as the site is dominated by articles from Associated Press and other news wire services. Thus we are different to Newsvine. We are however similar to Nowpublic.

Secondly our main competition is not “dead blogs”. Rather ScribbleSheet will turn people away from starting blogs they are only going to run for a couple weeks then bin.

Our competitors may be giants, but we believe by trying to create something great rather than gigantic we will be a bigger success.

Perhaps when I have time I will write full article response on ScribbleSheet. How about that!