I actually was thinking of the same thing earlier today. It's not just tech; I'm also involved in a fashion start up (if you can call it that) and, while there

I actually was thinking of the same thing earlier today. It's not just tech; I'm also involved in a fashion start up (if you can call it that) and, while there are general fashion blogs just like there are general technology blogs, there are indeed only a very few sites that most know about and check back day to day. TechCrunch et al have created their own media brands, not exactly mainstream (though MA and company are making more and more mainstream appearances) and not exactly small time blogs. The same applies to whatever fashion blogs exist for the bit that I mentioned earlier. It's not that others are not reporting on things...they are, we just don't hear them because we don't know they exist. That's why we have sites like Hacker News and Reddit, to allow anyone to post anything interesting or newsworthy, but the general public don't exactly know about their existence. For those of us lucky enough to have access to these sites, we are already finding a lot of stuff we might not normally find. What disappoints me sometimes is that I can't get to all the good stuff that gets posted to this site if a lot of posts come successively. Feed readers don't really seem to be the answer, though, at least not for me. Perhaps what we need is a new model. I just have no idea what.