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June 13, 2007

Read/Write Lach


Read/WriteWeb- Lachlan Hardy, originally uploaded by bigmick.

Big ups to my man Lachlan Hardy for getting his first post on Read/Write Web.

Was at a function last night and chatting to Mike Arrington and Gabe Rivera and some people were saying that TechMeme is their first point of call for web news, and some were saying TechCrunch. For me, Rea/Write Web fits in there too.

So what's the difference and why care? Here's my view.

TechCrunch - the galactic central point for all that is web 2.0. There isn't much that isn't quickly posted on TechCrunch. (Especially with Duncan Riley writing furiously...). You get the basics and you get them fast. TechCrunch is a little poptech for me. Lots of readers are not die hard web tech like me, they are just tech lurkers. That's fine.

Read/Write Web - web 2.0 and web tech but with a regularly spicing of analytics. RWW will do long posts if they are really required where as TechCrunch seems like they would rather be fast and first then in-depth (not to say they don't do that, just my on-average radar).

TechMeme - the aggregator and filter of all tech and web news. If I've only got 5 minutes, I'll start here and see what is really important. TechMeme does this really well. TechMeme is also a great service for the deep-in-tech guys like me, but I don't know if it has a big audience like TC or RWW.

At the end of the day, I enjoy all three and they all add value in different ways, at different times.

Posted at 03:36 AM in Web/Tech |

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Lachlan Hardy

Thanks, Mick! Obviously, I'm rapt to have written some articles for R/WW - hopefully, I'll be writing a few more!

For me, the problem with Techcrunch being the 'galactic central point' is that there is no longer any point in trying to keep up with that many posts per day - if they post something interesting/relevant to *me*, somebody will point it out to me.

I've never seen the point in TechMeme because if something is big enough to make Techmeme, then I'll have already heard about it from somebody else.

I'm sure that changes for everybody depending on specific needs! Which I guess is your final sentence ;)

Posted by: Lachlan Hardy | June 14, 2007 at 07:05 AM

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