Gadget research 101
I was surprise to learn about most of the new gadgets you have provided for the readers of your blog. I don’t have a technological question, but would like to know how your research is conducted to find the latest in new technology. - Addye
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Hi Addye,
I skim a lot. I skim e-mail, several Web sites, magazines, online newspapers (I only have time to skim the print editions of the OC Register and LA Times - and not every day). People call me, I call people. Readers offer suggestions. The list goes on. I should be reading more of my "competition" (like Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and On a typical morning, I check out these sites first:
- My Yahoo, where I grouped together all of OC's public tech companies so I can see if they have any breaking news.
- CNET, an online tech-news site updated several times a day.
- Slashdot, which calls itself 'News for Nerds,' and readers post obscure tech news or news that matters to geeks.
- Google News, the Tech section, which is an excellent way to find out if anybody has written about a topic in the past two weeks. The one problem is that Google News logs everything so you may have to sift through a lot of the same PR wire stories.
For the Gadgetress blog, I'm trying post something new 2 to 3 times a week. One of those days, I focus on highlighting new gadgets from Orange County companies. Much of the local news I find out through e-mail, by companies telling me what's new. But e-mail isn't the only tool I use. Here's a few gadget sites and other Web sites I often check:
- Gizmodo, the Gadget Weblog
- engadget, which is part of the Weblogs network (also has blogs on HDTVs, autos and other topics).
- Daypop's top 40 list of what blogs are linking to, which is where I discovered Lost Frog and Just Letters.
- iLounge, an Irvine site that will tell me everything I want to know about what's new in iPods
posted by Just some girl at 6:07 PM
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