During the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Leydon, Lewis King and Andrew Brackin about a new type meetup taking place next month. Tomorrow’s Web primarily focuses on bringing those interested in technology (Geeks and Techies) as well as those who are interested in building anything online.
The Meetup will take place in London’s GH Space on February 4th starting at around 1pm. Leydon, King and Brackin want to create a space for those who don’t want to go to long and expensive conferences that are out of proportion and don’t focus on a particular subject area in Technology where ideas can be exchanged and shared whilst professionals are there to share their experiences and infuse the attendees inspiration.
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This is a guest post by Marc Evans. He blogs regularly and is on Twitter as @marcaevans
In the weeks before new year I hosted a live stream on vokle and one of the questions asked was what have I got planned for after new year. At first I had to admit that I did not have much planned for new year after writing my first few articles for the website. I knew that it was important to plan ahead and attempted to work out what I would be writing in the weeks that followed. I quickly had an inspiration for a series of articles from a news story in Mac Format, a UK-based Apple magazine. This series will be looking at the products that helped make Apple going right the way back to 1976 which saw the release of the Apple 1.
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A few days ago, Jeremiah Owyang of Web Strategist posted “End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over“, highlighting several points of why tech blogs are dying and successful writers, like Robert Scoble find social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus seem to be more active then ever.
2011 has seen a dramatic change in how tech blogs are operated. ReadWriteWeb was bought out by media empire, SAY Media and Engadget editor in chief Josh Topolsky left the AOL blog to open The Verge, formally known as This is my Next. In addition, successful writers are either leaving or being fired from the big boy tech blogs, like Ben Parr, former Editor at Large at Mashable.
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