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Fred Wilson’s Monday post on Techmeme and the strengthening of corporate voices in tech blogging is still with me some days later. I’ve read it a couple of times and it expresses so succinctly a lot of my views on how tech blogging has changed for the worst.

A handful of years ago, I could distinguish real voices behind the keyboard. People with passionate views, letting them all hang out. Nowadays, a lot of these people are working in startups, are investors and part of corporate units. Homogen-voices. Yes, it’s a natural part of the puzzle and demonstrates the buy-in of corporates in blogging, but how has that changed these voices? Instead of opinionated posts from the heart, I read posts tempered by financial interests, cranked out content, axes to grind and egos to inflate.

I’ve for the most part, I’ve stopped reading these blogs of old. Instead, I read blogs written by younger people in tech (ignoring the jockeying voices here too) and more regularly, blogs written by people not in tech - who like to write about their travels, children or politics. Things that matter.

I love technology, but I don’t want to be sold something everytime I open a post. I want real opinion, not a corporate collective. I don’t read Techmeme anymore either.

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