Di-Verge

Re: my last link, I feel like I should explain, briefly, why I have no use for sites like Engadget or the Verge (hereafter referred to as General Purpose Tech Blogs, or GPTBs) instead of just saying they suck.

For better or worse, I’m only interested in a small area of the tech world. GPTBs, as my pithy initialism suggests, all cover broad categories of tech topics, most of which I consider completely irrelevant to my life. For example, I couldn’t care less about reviews for the Hot Android Phone of the Week or speculation about what Apple may or may not be doing six months from now. I understand that they do this to bring in a wide audience (and hence more advertising dollars), but for me the signal to noise ratio is just too low. Their home pages are completely overwhelming and, quite frankly, it’s a waste of my time to look through all of the headlines and try to find the one or two articles I would actually want to read. Ditto for any RSS feeds that they publish. 

I know there are lots and lots of people out there who actually care about overall trends in the tech world or whatever the new hotness is, but I’m not one of them. And I don’t think these kinds of sites should go away either. They have their uses and occasionally put out articles that interest me. I just assume if that happens, it’ll probably pop up in one (or many) of the other news sources I follow. And that’s worked out pretty well for me so far.