DEI Worldwide: the hypocritical scumbags astroturfing for Motorola

Lots of gadget sites are up in arms over Motorola’s astroturfing their next garbage cellphone, and for good reason. For those not familiar, astroturfing is the practice of sending out paid product marketers — primarily onto the web and into the blogosphere — to anonymously communicate with audiences as though they’re consumers / fans / [...]

Google Chrome already represents more than 10% of gdgt’s traffic!

Damn, if our numbers are anything to go by (and I’m not saying they are), the adoption rate of Google’s Chrome among the geek-set has been absolutely astonishing. Tomorrow will mark gdgt’s first week (in super soft launch mode, anyway), and about a week and a half for Chrome — and Google already represents more [...]

Bygones and rivalries

I’ve been saving a lot of good stories for my tell-all book about the early days of blogging pro (and I will write that damned book eventually, even if it all seems quaint by the time it’s out), but I know the question of Brian Lam’s and my armistice seems to linger on, and for [...]

Lists (and being on them)

A few weeks ago, with one post Anil Dash pretty much cleaned out every corner of the the whole linkbaiting-personalities-on-a-list debate. Granted, it’s a matter of passing significance for 99.99% of people out there, especially as it tends to concern the top 100 power-blogger / tech-influencer / web personality / blahblah set (whom I’ve found [...]

Yep, I’m leaving Engadget

It’s true, my last day as Engadget’s editor-in-chief will be late next month (my official announcement is here).
Without question, this has been the hardest decision I’ve ever made, but I know it’s the right one. And as much as I’m looking forward to new challenges (and grateful they’re not Motorola-related), I’m also really excited [...]

Joystiq turns four!

Hard to believe Joystiq is four years old today! I remember the old days with Pete and Ben Zackheim (who’s actually still in the AOL Games family), working to get it off the ground, helping fill in stories for Joystiq between posts on Engadget. Four bits of Joystiq trivia:

Joystiq’s first E3 (Engadget’s second) is where [...]

Page one!

Excuse me for a moment of self indulgence here, but I noticed my search referrers were going up for my first name — and as it turns out, I’ve gone from page two to page one (number ten, to be exact) for “ryan.” Okay, I know it’s nothing compared to Veronica, who claims the number [...]

Joy of Tech brings me joy

I know Steve is a daily Engadget reader, but I never fully understood why until now.

Mentoring the next generation of gadget bloggers

Late last year Peter and I began a mentorship program with some students of the Torah Academy of Bergen County; Eli, Chaim, and later Charlie and Tzvi got together to begin writing an editing a gadget blog aimed at teenagers casually interested in technology, dubbed the TeenTechBlog. These kids have definitely made a lot of [...]