Is The Guardian's Technology Supplement slipping away?


By Rebecca Hughes - Posted on 04 June 2009

I sat at the conference table today, reading The Guardian’s Technology supplement, wondering if I’d ever be saying “bing it” instead of “google it”. It didn't even cross my mind that later on I would reading about the sections possible disappearance.

But perhaps we should have seen it coming as the advertising started to disappear like last season's iPhone.

Granted, techie-readers will still keep up to date with it online, but I don’t want to have to read it all through Twitter links...

Bets on its replacement?

Such Free Journalism, built on and within others, is very likely to disappear or turn costly. If you want some techie-stuff - and dont worry a whole great deal for the price - Wired launched a UK version again (after it's 90s-something failure) now. What is very interesting, is that it HAS to make some good content, because of the times and the very niché market. US Wired has been my personal long-time favorite for a large variety of tech news - from US supersatelitest and latest on high-spec military gear, to latest phone reviews.

There are others, especially in the UK, that I dont know about. But freebie-tech? My guess is you have to wait out the economic crisis then (excluding the websites of course - and since I do not like Twitter: Guardian's web has Tech news there aswell)