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There are so many tech publications, and I never knew why I should read Gigaom instead of others. Perhaps that's one reason they didn't attract enough revenue.

There are so many tech publications, and I never knew why I should read Gigaom instead of others. Perhaps that's one reason they didn't attract enough revenue. Can anyone answer that question? Even better: Can anyone advise what publications they would read if they were interested in innovations in technologies and in their applications, rather than in products? That is, I'm interested in innovations or developments like IoT or blockchain or HTTP/2, and innovative ways to utilize them. Generally I'm not interested in something like the latest MacBook Air; it's significant in the marketplace, but for my purposes it only marginally improves and repackages existing tech.

nashequilibrium 12y ago
http://www.fastcompany.com/section/technovore http://www.fastcompany.com/section/technovore I have visited his writings in the above link more than the actual Gigaom site. One thing i will say, is that there are some really talented journalists at Gigaom.
- hackuser 12y ago
  That is excellent, thanks. (If you happen to know an address for an RSS feed of Technovore, I'd be very appreciative. Fast Company seems to offer only their entire site's headlines (http://feeds.feedburner.com/fastcompany/headlines http://feeds.feedburner.com/fastcompany/headlines), which has too poor signal-to-noise to add to my feeds.) EDIT: Nevermind, found it: http://www.fastcompany.com/user/om-malik.rss http://www.fastcompany.com/user/om-malik.rss
softdev12 12y ago
I read a bunch of different tech sites, but it my opinion, the most relevant stuff is on HN. It basically aggregates all the best stuff from all the tech publications anyway, so you are probably just as well off in the end. Of course, if you want to read more academic articles per se, stick to the big science publications like Nature, etc. Here's a list in no particular order: 1) recode 2) pando daily 3) techcrunch 4) techmeme (another good aggregator) 5) Mit tech review 6) New York Times Bits 7) WSJ D 8) CNET 9) Mashable
- datascientist 12y ago
  O'Reilly Radar
- Sonicmouse 12y ago
  Mashable?! I know it's last in the list, but come on. I can't take your list seriously now. Mashable... Ha.
- ForHackernews 12y ago
  Ars Technica?
  - wtallis 12y ago
    Ars Technica is basically an aggregator that dumbs things down almost to Associated Press level. Ars will give you a clue about what's newsworthy, but if you want technical details you have to track down their sources (which were probably on HN and Reddit the previous week).
    - nitrogen 12y ago
      http://arstechnica.com/science http://arstechnica.com/science is a little bit better than the rest of the site, but its median article quality is also going downhill.
      - feybay 12y ago
        Yep, I saw a sharp decline in quality and increase in clickbait right around when GamerGate picked up steam. Maybe it was happening before but it's very noticeable now. Too bad.
    - discodave 12y ago
      I have stopped frequenting Ars over the last year or so, which is a shame. Their articles back in the day about CPU architectures (P4, Core, AMD64 etc.) were basically the reason I went into Electrical Engineering.
    - 12y ago
ghshephard 12y ago
I've always found if it was really important, it would show up in my twitter feed or HN - So rather than going to the various sites, I just use those two as my meta-index.
hkmurakami 12y ago
It was my site of choice because they weren't so shameless about pushing tons of clickbait on the readers. Alas, it must have contributed to its demise.
- muyuu 12y ago
  I didn't know about this site. Sounds good but I suspect I'm a tad late to the party.
vonnik 12y ago
In the big data space, you had to read Gigaom. They cared a lot about projects like Hadoop, and it showed. Derrick Harris has been doing great work for years. RIP for a solid tech publication.
- coleca 12y ago
  Agreed. GigaOM was also a terrific source for news about Cloud Computing. Derrick and Barb Darrow had a great podcast as well that covered both topics, The Structure Show. An extremely entertaining and well produced podcast that had some terrific interviews. Such a shame. Was always a big fan of Om from back when he'd appear on the Cranky Geeks show and loved what he built at GigaOM.
tim_iles 12y ago
I pay for the Launch Ticker (https://www.launchticker.com/ https://www.launchticker.com/). No linkbait or hyperbole, just key facts about the latest tech stories.
eitally 12y ago
I actually just rely on an RSS reader to present a whole bunch of ad-free headlines to me, and then I decide what looks interesting. The hottest topics are often covered by multiple, similar outlets, and then there are also niche publishers (like gwern, for example). Almost unbelievably, on mobile my favorite feed reader is Pulse, which LinkedIn bought a year or so back. I've used Feedly, too, and Google's Newsstand, but Pulse seems easier to scan through. For tech-specific news, HN is the best source to meta-news that's actually technical, as well as human curated weirdness. /r/programming, /r/technology, /r/android, etc are all good, too. Whenever there's a big trade show or launch event, I usually check Pando, TheVerge, UberGizmo and a few others (Re/Code, Mashable, VentureBeat, etc). I have an IFTTT recipe that pushes any new Android app disassembly article from Phandroid and Android Police (they do a FANTASTIC job of analyzing Google app updates for unspecified changes, and also always rehost the APKs). I look for in-depth product reviews from Anandtech. I laugh at XKCD's always timely cartoons. Note that for the ones I follow via a reader, I almost never go to their site directly, and never see any ads. I do use an adblocker (uBlock), but I am considering uninstalling it because of memory consumption. I'm on a Chromebook most of the time and between Gmail & adblockers, 4GB of RAM just isn't sufficient.

nashequilibrium 12y ago

http://www.fastcompany.com/section/technovore http://www.fastcompany.com/section/technovore I have visited his writings in the above link more than the actual Gigaom site. One thing i will say, is that there are some really talented journalists at Gigaom.

hackuser 12y ago
That is excellent, thanks. (If you happen to know an address for an RSS feed of Technovore, I'd be very appreciative. Fast Company seems to offer only their entire site's headlines (http://feeds.feedburner.com/fastcompany/headlines http://feeds.feedburner.com/fastcompany/headlines), which has too poor signal-to-noise to add to my feeds.) EDIT: Nevermind, found it: http://www.fastcompany.com/user/om-malik.rss http://www.fastcompany.com/user/om-malik.rss

softdev12 12y ago

I read a bunch of different tech sites, but it my opinion, the most relevant stuff is on HN. It basically aggregates all the best stuff from all the tech publications anyway, so you are probably just as well off in the end. Of course, if you want to read more academic articles per se, stick to the big science publications like Nature, etc. Here's a list in no particular order: 1) recode 2) pando daily 3) techcrunch 4) techmeme (another good aggregator) 5) Mit tech review 6) New York Times Bits 7) WSJ D 8) CNET 9) Mashable

datascientist 12y ago
O'Reilly Radar
Sonicmouse 12y ago
Mashable?! I know it's last in the list, but come on. I can't take your list seriously now. Mashable... Ha.
ForHackernews 12y ago
Ars Technica?
- wtallis 12y ago
  Ars Technica is basically an aggregator that dumbs things down almost to Associated Press level. Ars will give you a clue about what's newsworthy, but if you want technical details you have to track down their sources (which were probably on HN and Reddit the previous week).
  - nitrogen 12y ago
    http://arstechnica.com/science http://arstechnica.com/science is a little bit better than the rest of the site, but its median article quality is also going downhill.
    - feybay 12y ago
      Yep, I saw a sharp decline in quality and increase in clickbait right around when GamerGate picked up steam. Maybe it was happening before but it's very noticeable now. Too bad.
  - discodave 12y ago
    I have stopped frequenting Ars over the last year or so, which is a shame. Their articles back in the day about CPU architectures (P4, Core, AMD64 etc.) were basically the reason I went into Electrical Engineering.
  - 12y ago

ghshephard 12y ago

I've always found if it was really important, it would show up in my twitter feed or HN - So rather than going to the various sites, I just use those two as my meta-index.

hkmurakami 12y ago

It was my site of choice because they weren't so shameless about pushing tons of clickbait on the readers. Alas, it must have contributed to its demise.

muyuu 12y ago
I didn't know about this site. Sounds good but I suspect I'm a tad late to the party.

vonnik 12y ago

In the big data space, you had to read Gigaom. They cared a lot about projects like Hadoop, and it showed. Derrick Harris has been doing great work for years. RIP for a solid tech publication.

coleca 12y ago
Agreed. GigaOM was also a terrific source for news about Cloud Computing. Derrick and Barb Darrow had a great podcast as well that covered both topics, The Structure Show. An extremely entertaining and well produced podcast that had some terrific interviews. Such a shame. Was always a big fan of Om from back when he'd appear on the Cranky Geeks show and loved what he built at GigaOM.

tim_iles 12y ago

I pay for the Launch Ticker (https://www.launchticker.com/ https://www.launchticker.com/). No linkbait or hyperbole, just key facts about the latest tech stories.

eitally 12y ago

I actually just rely on an RSS reader to present a whole bunch of ad-free headlines to me, and then I decide what looks interesting. The hottest topics are often covered by multiple, similar outlets, and then there are also niche publishers (like gwern, for example). Almost unbelievably, on mobile my favorite feed reader is Pulse, which LinkedIn bought a year or so back. I've used Feedly, too, and Google's Newsstand, but Pulse seems easier to scan through. For tech-specific news, HN is the best source to meta-news that's actually technical, as well as human curated weirdness. /r/programming, /r/technology, /r/android, etc are all good, too. Whenever there's a big trade show or launch event, I usually check Pando, TheVerge, UberGizmo and a few others (Re/Code, Mashable, VentureBeat, etc). I have an IFTTT recipe that pushes any new Android app disassembly article from Phandroid and Android Police (they do a FANTASTIC job of analyzing Google app updates for unspecified changes, and also always rehost the APKs). I look for in-depth product reviews from Anandtech. I laugh at XKCD's always timely cartoons. Note that for the ones I follow via a reader, I almost never go to their site directly, and never see any ads. I do use an adblocker (uBlock), but I am considering uninstalling it because of memory consumption. I'm on a Chromebook most of the time and between Gmail & adblockers, 4GB of RAM just isn't sufficient.