Laurent Kretz

I have been reading Mashable for a while, since the end of 2005 if i remember well. I found it a good alternative to TechCrunch as of 2006, as it was covering a wider scope of new startups launching.

What I loved especially were the “Mashable Roundups”. This is a good example, for those who didn’t read Mashable at the time. It was a simple digest of what was hot in the web2.0 space, a quick summary of what you had to know. There are many digests around, but I found Mashable’s to be exhaustive to the perfect degree, and the editorial quality was always good.

But Mashable has become a full blogging “mash-ine”. And one number says it all: 6,500+ posts in 2007. That’s an average of 18 a day, or 25 per weekdays … The problem is not that there are too many posts, the problem is that they are interesting for a good part of them, and worth reading.

I was late reading a few days’ posts, and didn’t find the time to go through them. Of course Mashable didn’t stop publishing until I was done catching up. Another long week-end away, a heavy week at work, half-a-dozen squash games, and boom, I am down 400 posts to sort/browse/read.

I hate the sometimes so tempting gmail feature “Mark as read” …

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