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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
Very good. I agree.
Who are the good ones? We should start a thread somewhere. My favorites of the moment are Anand Lal Shimpi, Andy Ihnatko, and the former Engadget writers now housed at thisismynext.com.
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I like Anand. Actually I know a guy who writes for Anandtech. However, they're tech writers. The spend their time studying benchmarks, chipsets and operating systems.
An electronic device came out that was meant to supplement a non-digital experience, in this case paper books, and for some reason tech writers decided that it fell into their territory. It doesn't. When I want a professional review of a heart rate monitor I'll look for it from a fitness enthusiast, not someone who sees its display then remarks on how primitive it is because it won't play Angry Birds (after all, there are heart-rate apps for iOS and Android).
When Pogue spends three hours a day reading novels, or something other than tech blogs and press releases, I'll listen to him. Maybe he does already, but his writing about ereaders in the context of personal computing/multimedia devices suggests that he doesn't know wtf he's talking about.