Let’s be honest, I basically had to, right?
The amount of positive (and constructive) feedback that I’ve received since launching t-shirtblo.gs last week has been pretty amazing. There’s been close to 3,000 visits since launch, and the top 10 blogs on the list have way over 1000 votes between them, those are numbers that I’m really happy with. I, and a lot of other people are also finding out about a lot of cool t-shirt blogs as well. I’d like to think that I’m well integrated into the t-shirt community, and that as a group, there is quite a lot of linking and chatter, but these last 7 days have shown me that there’s a lot more people out there writing about shirts and hunting down great brands and designers, and that can only be a good thing for us all, especially now that we have a list where we can find them.
Every morning when I turn on my PC I load up the admin page for t-shirt blo.gs and check out the URLs that have been submitted overnight, and there’s something wrong with some of the links. They aren’t to t-shirt blogs, they’re to t-shirt stores. So, about mentioning it a couple of times on Twitter, some people said “why not make a list for that?” So I did.
If you’ve seen t-shirtblo.gs, ShirtStor.es will be very familiar to you. The premise is the same, sites are listed, voted on, and ranked using a 5 star system. Highest score wins. I’ve added about 50 sites myself to get the ball rolling, but I want t-shirt stores to be adding themselves, to make sure that they get the description of their site they want, since just having a brand name doesn’t necessarily help the reader know what kind of thing a t-shirt brand sells, after all, would you really think that Threadless sold t-shirts if you just heard their name?
I realise that there are A LOT more t-shirt stores than blogs, and that this list could get messy and ridiculously long quite quickly. To comabt this I am looking into whether it is possible to add pages to the list (say, 100 sites per page), or, and I think that this might be a bit more exciting, whether to send brands into “exile” by deleting the bottom 10 brands at the end of every month, then not allowing them to come back for a few months, how does that sound? As ever, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and care pacakges of delicious fudge are very much appreciated. Now go, check out ShirtStor.es, vote for brands, and suggest some brands!
