New tech site recommendation - I rather like @gadgette

[andrewducker]

I can't remember exactly when I stopped reading The Register, finally fed up with the hectoring tone and frequent bias of writers more interested in banter than conveying tech news*.

I asked for advice at the time, and eventually settled on Ars Technica, who give a wide-ranging view on the tech world, with in-depth articles and good clear writing. And it's been my main source for tech news since - to the point whre I pay for a subscription, so that I can read it ad-free (and get complete stories in the RSS feed).

Over the last few days I've added a second site to that - Gadgette. Which I initially shied away from, even after reading a couple of good articles, because it brands itself as a women's tech-site. But actually, it's not _for_ women, it's just for people. It doesn't focus on "women's issues", it just acts inclusively, (presumably because it's written by women writers). And I've been regularly enjoying the quality of their articles.

Well worth taking a look, if you're looking for a consumer-tech-related news site.

*I liked it when it was tech news with an edge of sarcasm, knowingness, and blistering commentary. But at some point I got bored of the constant, repeated, tropes, and the feeling that they had lost control of their writers, more interested in page views than reporting.

Comments

[marahmarie]

OK, I'll bite. I haven't even looked at the site yet (but I will) but right off the bat, as a woman, I hate anything besides actual safe journaling spaces/forums/etc. that are women only. It's like pink power tools. Do not give me pink power tools. I want to use the same color power tools as all the other genders do and not *be* othered by a stereotyped color choice. I don't care if men someday happen to favor pink but until then, if you don't then I'll use whatever color you're using. There is no special color to show that it's just for me. I am simply nauseated by that sort of thing.

(I'm no regular visitor of Jezebel or JaneXoX or whatever other strictly-women blog is out there for the same reason. It's nice to have your own space, yeah. Every once in a while it's even nice to go visit it. But a steady diet of that, like a steady diet of anything biased too far in any one direction, gets to be a bit too much for me to take, after a while. The whole tone becomes too strident to keep on consuming, I guess.)