The Best Tech News Site That Isn’t a Tech News Site That Didn’t Exist Yesterday
There are lots of places to get a day’s worth of comprehensive tech coverage.
Like the site you’re reading now, for instance. And Techmeme does a bang-up job of telling you what most tech sites are writing about at any given minute.*
But if you want to understand the gestalt of current tech coverage — the things that tech reporters and pundits are really saying, even when we’re not saying it — then there’s one place you should be looking.
Oddly enough (or maybe not), it’s not a tech news website. Also odd: It didn’t exist 24 hours ago.
Techmeme Heds is a truth-telling Twitter feed that started transmitting yesterday afternoon. Its bio describes its author as “An Honest Techmeme Headline Editor.”
It is awesome.
Some samples:
We Know This Thing Is Not True At All But Pageviews So Question Mark?
— Techmeme Heds (@nottechmeme) September 7, 2013
Lets Froth At The Mouth Over This App That No One Outside Of San Francisco Even Understands
— Techmeme Heds (@nottechmeme) September 7, 2013
Things That Apple Won’t Do Next Week
— Techmeme Heds (@nottechmeme) September 6, 2013
The Company Obviously Told Us This Off The Record
— Techmeme Heds (@nottechmeme) September 6, 2013
It would be reasonable to guess that Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera was running Techmeme Heds himself, in an act of incisive self-hatred. He said this is not true.
Whoever it is spends a lot of time closely reading — and likely writing and/or editing — a lot of tech coverage. Perhaps you?
In any case, it is great, in a knowing and quietly angry way. My only complaint is that at the rate Techmeme Heds is producing — 51 Tweets in 21 hours — it may exhaust itself over the weekend, like a glorious shooting star.
But I hope it sticks around, at least through Tuesday afternoon.
* Spoiler: Almost always Apple.
