Today, technology news has a problem: people who might know what they're talking about don't write. Blogs are somewhat better but the blogger doesn't have an incentive to collect opposing points of view or do boring fact-checking or tedious testing.
I see a lot of people saying that the comments are the best part of the article. This is wrong. You only feel this way because tech reporting is so degraded.
What I would like: a news site that figures out some way to make money off rare information and insightful reporting. One half Consumer Reports, one half the Marc Andressen blog. Even if this resulted in there being just a few posts per day, I think I would read it. Plus, on the web, quality information can rake in pageviews over a long period of time, so this strategy isn't economic suicide. It does take a longer time to pay off.
Maybe there are a few sites like this today, such as Tom's Hardware or Ars Technica, but I am not much of a hardware guy. I deal with web software, and the writing around that topic seems to be decidedly fluffy.
Today, technology news has a problem: people who might know what they're talking about don't write. Blogs are somewhat better but the blogger doesn't have an incentive to collect opposing points of view or do boring fact-checking or tedious testing.
I see a lot of people saying that the comments are the best part of the article. This is wrong. You only feel this way because tech reporting is so degraded.
What I would like: a news site that figures out some way to make money off rare information and insightful reporting. One half Consumer Reports, one half the Marc Andressen blog. Even if this resulted in there being just a few posts per day, I think I would read it. Plus, on the web, quality information can rake in pageviews over a long period of time, so this strategy isn't economic suicide. It does take a longer time to pay off.
Maybe there are a few sites like this today, such as Tom's Hardware or Ars Technica, but I am not much of a hardware guy. I deal with web software, and the writing around that topic seems to be decidedly fluffy.