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Are these the tech bloggers we should pay attention to?

I’m still amazed when reading tech bloggers that do not get even the basics.

Sam Diaz (ZDNet) about RSS:

But my sources of for reading material are scattered across the Web, not in one aggregated spot.

I catch headlines on Yahoo News and Google News. I have a pretty extensive lineup of browser bookmarks to take me to sites that I scan throughout the day. Techmeme is always in one of my browser tabs so I can keep a pulse on what others in my industry are talking about. […]

The truth of the matter is that RSS readers are a Web 1.0 tool

Well, let me help you out: the way you are using the web is pre-1.0. Basically, Sam Diaz says that it’s a lot easier:

• to use browser bookmarks.
• to manage tens of browser tabs
• to have to manually check all your bookmarked pages for updates

These arguments are so lame that they are not even worth arguing about (just a hint: automatic refreshes, synchronization across multiple places, etc.)

Here is another example. Corvida Raven (SheGeeks.net):

Look closely at the top of the image above and you’ll see a 301 error message. This was the result of trying to stumble an article via Google Reader. […]

I only have one question: did anyone from the Google Reader team test this feature before releasing it? It sure as hell doesn’t seem like it.

Firstly I was expecting that a tech blogger would have at least a vague idea of what a 301 means. Leaving aside my “preconception” that tech bloggers should know something about the web, I’ve tried to explain that the error was on the other side of the wire (StumbleUpon) and hoped that she’ll update the post accordingly. The answer:

And Google couldn’t test that out before releasing the feature to the public.

I cannot stop wondering if these are the tech bloggers we should read and pay attention to? The new era journalists?