Is It Worth Starting An Irish Tech News Website?

Sometimes it is difficult to tell the press releases from the news on what passes for Irish technology news sites. Most of them seem to be just recycling press releases with an added byline. And then there is the gadget fests where the latest products have unquestioning puff pieces published as “reviews”. So is it worth starting a real Irish tech news site or is the Irish market so small that only mediocrity thrives?

Written by John McCormac on October 3rd, 2006 with comments disabled.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#1. October 3rd, 2006, at 4:54 PM.

Well it does have slightly more original content than ENN. :) But you can see the same press releases turning up on both.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#2. October 4th, 2006, at 8:49 AM.

It is a small market Danny,
but online, an Irish tech news site would have a global reach.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ed Byrne
#3. October 4th, 2006, at 10:55 AM.

Go for it!

Why not make it a community tech site and involve the various tech groups as contributors - Irishdev.com, SFA, ICS, developers.ie, it@Cork … there’s loads.