.. not that I disagree with you… but, it's funny that you did it.

I was just heavily disappointed in the fact that you've been posting up on modern news, and perhaps rather dignifying mainstream news from technology news (two seperate RSS feeds?) would be a clear-fire way to shoot for.

I'm impressed that you take harsh feedback so kindly.

Thanks for the feedback – always appreciated!

I'm always open to editors trying out different ideas with regard to coverage scope – you'll never grow unless you try new things, fail a few times, but also hit on some directions that work. I'd argue that Mashable isn't another tech blog, but actually created a new genre of social media blogs: we did that by not emulating people's current expectations of what a tech blog needs to be.

Nobody knows what the future looks like, but we're going to experiment and refine as we go. The story you mention was perhaps a bit jarring in contrast to our usual fare, I'd agree, but there's also a large sector of our audience who were very interested in the story (note the retweet count).

We keep a really close eye on the comments, of course, and adjust our course based on the reaction. Negative comments are not evidence that we need to stop experimenting, by the way, they're just indicative that a course correction is needed.

Thanks again for the feedback Marc! Have a great weekend