This bit of news is something we at SiliconANGLE was privy to a while back: Huffington Post is opening up a technology coverage area.
I found some official reporting on it today over at Andy Plesser’s Beet.TV:
Jose says in this interview that "technology is anthropology" and the site will address how technology is used and how it affects society.
It will be interesting to see how this page will be heard above the roar of the mass of technology publications and blogs. It surely has some advantages. The site will have extremely high search optimization and traffic. The publication claims 20 million unique users per month.
We found out about it here several months ago due to being listed as references by a couple of A-List bloggers we know listing us as references on their application.
The fellow who got the job is Jose Antonio Vargas, a former political reporter for the Washington Post. He’s an alumnus of Mountain View High School (’00) and San Francisco State University (’04), and spent some time at the San Francisco Chronicle as well.
The model HuffPo’s tech and innovations section is taking looks a bit like validation for the SiliconANGLE model. Rather than resting on hard original reporting, post volume or personality blogging, they plan on going with the peer-blogging model, a modus operandi we’ve been pushing the boundaries of since the start of the year.
Signed up to contribute to the tech section are a lot of names that regularly appear around these parts in our tech policy coverage, including FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, as well as our very own Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute updates and contributions to the Beet.TV “purple channel.”
It sounds like that the Huffpo’s tech coverage might be a bit politics-heavy (not to mention, featuring a lot of punditry that leans decidedly left), so it’ll be interesting to how it evolves and takes shape.
