Maybe we’re too close to the process and can’t view it from a reader end anymore. It’s supposed to sort of work like Gawker when it has Defamer and Valleywag content pushed to the Gawker.com site (before those blogs were eventually subsumed into Gawker itself). I also view it sort of like Flickr—where you have your photo in your photostream but can also add it to different groups or sets. Here, it’s like a Slice post that gets promoted to the main SE page or SENY, depending on relevance.

It probably gets even worse if you follow the Slice Twitter feed or are a fan of Slice on Facebook. Then you have the possibility of seeing the same thing 5 times. :-/ Imperfect, I know, but I don’t know what the fix would be …

@Donatello: I think it’s not so much trying to differentiate it. I think it’s good that they’re moving more toward a unified voice and tone. Actually, I’d like to think that one of the reasons the sites sound alike is that Ed Levine originally hired me largely because he liked the tone and feel of Slice and A Hamburger Today and wanted me to help direct SE toward that voice. So if they sound the same, I think I’ve accomplished that. I would say there are some subtle differences. I probably get a little more ornery and let my hair down more on Slice, since I do feel like it’s still my baby — which, again, is probably why I’m venting here about this issue—which really isn’t a huge issue in the scheme of things. Really, I’m happy that more people are now reading Slice and (more important) reading about great pizza thanks to its association with SE.

So it doesn’t really feel like the content “belongs” to Slice, more that it’s Serious Eats content and it gets spread around to the appropriate blogs within the network. (Same things happens with the AHT postings.)

Just my impression, though.