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Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:45:38 GMT

Hey guys,

Leonard and I thought it might be nice to include an update every week on the community of new gadget and technology news.

There are lots of places to find out this info and I was wondering if any if you lovely lot had any sites that you use regularly that are very informative?

Such as techradar, t3, gizmodo etc.

That way we can have a wider variety and include all the great news from around the world

So, where do you find out the latest goings-on?

Toby

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

sheepdog — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:28:56 GMT

Engadget is a particular favourite of mine as it's not as biased as bgr.com (wants to be Apple's lovechild and the knife in RIM's back) and quite ranging. The Verge is an offshoot of that but not so easy on the eye for my liking. Can't fault The Daily Geek over at the interweb cat site for bizarre yet cool stuff. Oh and of course The Register for a sarcastic view of things related to all things IT (or not!).

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:12:22 GMT

Brilliant I'll check those out sheepdog, many thanks.

Keep posting here guys if you have a recommendation

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:05:23 GMT

I use the following:

http://www.imore.com/

http://forums.macrumors.com/

http://www.pocket-lint.com/

In my opinion though, Macrumors takes some beating.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Liquid — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:23:02 GMT

Http://www.slashdot.org
Http://www.cnet.com
Http://www.tomshardware.co.uk
Http://www.geek.com

They're not always the most up to date but slashdot is defiantly the best site I've come across in a long time

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

sheepdog — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:29:02 GMT

Slashdot must be one of the most annoying sites ever though its more of a commentary site about tech news than an outright tech newsite. Highly aggravating comments section (click to read a post of a reply then a reply to that post, click again!!!!) full of self-important know-it-all-and-you-are-always-wrong. Don't get me wrong, I do on occasion read the site but it goes off into tangents and I'm not sure half of them actually know anything more than doing a google for it. Sigh, it hasn't changed in the last 15 years either.

BTW, add to the list AnandTech. A very high quality review site that really does go into depth about the product.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Liquid — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:21:07 GMT

Haha yes I will agree with the comments side of slashdot:) I just avoid them.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:50:44 GMT

Brilliant cheers for this guys.

Keep them coming if you see them.

Toby

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

macblank — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:28:25 GMT

I use

www.crave.cnet.co.uk
Drippler (an app from PLAY)

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:36:03 GMT

Lifehacker and Gizmodo for me. I would hyperlink both but I'm on my phone!

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:49:03 GMT

I like GigaOM, TechCrunch, and Mashable and Shiny Shiny.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:54:57 GMT

Cheers for the continuing suggestions guys! We're getting lots of threads in Off-topic about recent news stories and its great too see, so keep going.

I shall collate these stories for a community round up soon

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

jonsie — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:29:55 GMT

Think we should have a community magazine Toby.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:55:17 GMT

That's an interesting idea jonsie I like it. How would you see it happening? A routine? A set subject for each week? Or a variety each time? We have had lots of news stories discussed in the last few weeks so if that continues it's definitely a possibility!

Toby

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

jonsie — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:54:16 GMT

Maybe regular features and latest news. We could incorporate the Saturday film club and the weekly profiles, new handset releases and reviews etc. But no community posts as that would detract from the main community here. Hints and tips, community member photos (or similar to the funny photo thread?)

Just think it might bring everything that's good about the community into a weekly/monthly magazine that could be emailed to the members.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Toby — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:06:11 GMT

A great idea jonsie. The email aspect is fantastic

I'll have a think about this, as your description has made me think about the amount of options available with the huge amount of content we have now haha.

Toby

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Liquid — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:06:40 GMT

I really like that idea:) O2 could even make an extension to the website for it detract from the forums completely?:)

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:26:49 GMT

Great idea Jonsie I tend to get most tech news from the bbc site, just been looking at the mini iPad not interested at them kind of prices though.

Re: Where do you get your technology news?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:57:11 GMT

Absolutely brilliant idea! Loving this!

How would you feel about all of us doing this together?

For example, an idea might be to have a thread where people can opt in for getting the magazine. Additionally the thread could also be used for people to suggest fixed items (such as member spotlight, a "did you know...", etc) and to suggest or even write those short articles, reviews, hints & tips.

If someone then collects everything and puts it in a PDF, he/she could easily distribute it to everyone on the opt-in list. That would truly make it a magazine for and by the community.

What do you reckon?