Slice losing mindshare?
by Adam Kuban
This kinda makes me sad. Brownstoner says that “Serious Eats checked in on the place …” when in fact it was Slice that did the checkin’ in.
I know that Slice is now a part of Serious Eats, but it still sort of hurts seeing your baby get sat on by a big ol’ elephant.
If people are starting to lose sight of Slice and perceive it as merely Serious Eats, it seems like we might as well close down the separate Slice branding and just fold any pizza stuff into Serious Eats and Serious Eats New York.
I suppose blogs sort of have life cycles. I remember a bunch of blogs that seemed unstoppable back in the day and that are now defunct. Perhaps Slice has reached yet another trough in the sine wave of pizza blogging. Who knows.
Comments
Or you could look at it this way… Brownstoner clearly saw the post xposted to SE. Maybe they don’t read Slice, and wouldn’t have seen it at all if it hadn’t been xposted. And in the end, they linked to Slice and are pushing people to Slice… so you shouldn’t be too bummed about it.
That’s a good way to look at it, Zach. You’re always good with bright-side POVs. I guess it’s sort of like when you were SENY editor and wanted people to call it “Serious Eats New York” in the link text instead of “Serious Eats.”