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Mashable Awards: Technology
No surprises that I’m interested in the technology side of the Mashable Awards. I’m not one for criticising tech sites normally, but I’ve just about had it with Mashable after the above decision to make the iPhone 4S the best smartphone of the year, because it’s not. I know the awards are voted on by their readers and the Galaxy Nexus isn’t available fully in the U.S. yet, but it shows the type of reader Mashable attracts, and it’s not the genuine tech reader.
Mashable started off as a solely social media website and I loved the site back then. Since that time (which isn’t that long admittedly) Mashable has started branching out to cover tech, entertainment, and business. It’s spread itself thin, in my opinion. I no longer discover stories and pieces I want to write about on Mashable. It’s become slow. Rather than leading the way in social media reporting, it’s now become a news aggregator, that’s behind some of the better sites around. In part, I do realise that’s because my regular tech reads have widened and therefore I discover news elsewhere, but Mashable used to be a leader in my social web reads. These days it’s not.
Quite frankly, The Verge’s coverage of the main stories in social web is far more comprehensive. Their editorials and features are more challenging of the social web and if something is rubbish, they dare to say it. Mashable doesn’t seem to have that same level of intelligence. The stories are short and the website is poorly designed, unfortunately.
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but Mashable isn’t what it used to be. I’ll venture there to catch up in 100 words after a week in the wild with no 3G, but it’s not going to challenge my ideas or break news.
Sorry Pete…
