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Yeah, that or The Verge. But a good editor and/or a strong website relaunch could make up for lost time pretty quickly - see Josh Topolsky's work on Bloomberg

Yeah, that or The Verge. But a good editor and/or a strong website relaunch could make up for lost time pretty quickly - see Josh Topolsky's work on Bloomberg or the New Yorker's web overhaul 2 years ago. Granted, I can't quite imagine how they can leverage their brand's err core identity without seeming hopelessly out of date. Cleavagey models would seem just as archaic.

lemevi 11y ago
This is all very subjective, but I've never found The Verge to be intellectually stimulating. It's just your run of the mill shallow gadget site, only with better graphics. It doesn't go in depth the way Anandtech does for example, and there's little of Arstechnica's investigative journalism. The Verge spends more time optimizing how their pages are designed than their journalism.
- saturdaysaint 11y ago
  I largely agree, but it's a solid, well rounded lifestyle site, which seems consonant with Playboy's brand - I could see them becoming a slightly refined/nerdy Maxim. Vice would pair more naturally with Suicide Girls if the concept of sexifying journalism/writing is at all worthwhile in the digital age. Now, combining a hard tech site like Anandtech/Ars with attractive models? How generous of you to just leave a billion dollar idea right out in a public forum ;).
- amyjess 11y ago
  They've done some excellent long-form articles, though. For example: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-arcade-for-amusement-only http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death...
- digi_owl 11y ago
  I feel like Ars have been slipping since Hannibal left, and they closed down their open source section. Perhaps their last great deep dive was the series of articles on the Amiga computer. The most striking is perhaps how much of a tone change there was for one editor that moved to the site primarily to write about Android. Ever since he changed employer his articles seem to be all about highlighting what is wrong about the OS. All in all i fear the site has gotten very agenda driven in recent years.

lemevi 11y ago

This is all very subjective, but I've never found The Verge to be intellectually stimulating. It's just your run of the mill shallow gadget site, only with better graphics. It doesn't go in depth the way Anandtech does for example, and there's little of Arstechnica's investigative journalism. The Verge spends more time optimizing how their pages are designed than their journalism.

saturdaysaint 11y ago
I largely agree, but it's a solid, well rounded lifestyle site, which seems consonant with Playboy's brand - I could see them becoming a slightly refined/nerdy Maxim. Vice would pair more naturally with Suicide Girls if the concept of sexifying journalism/writing is at all worthwhile in the digital age. Now, combining a hard tech site like Anandtech/Ars with attractive models? How generous of you to just leave a billion dollar idea right out in a public forum ;).
amyjess 11y ago
They've done some excellent long-form articles, though. For example: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-arcade-for-amusement-only http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death...
digi_owl 11y ago
I feel like Ars have been slipping since Hannibal left, and they closed down their open source section. Perhaps their last great deep dive was the series of articles on the Amiga computer. The most striking is perhaps how much of a tone change there was for one editor that moved to the site primarily to write about Android. Ever since he changed employer his articles seem to be all about highlighting what is wrong about the OS. All in all i fear the site has gotten very agenda driven in recent years.