Tech blogging's devolved into a frantic scramble for ad impressions and traffic from various social sites with almost no effort put into any article. You can see it most days here ... a story will go from the HN front page to the tech blog's front page so it can circle back to HN's front page.<p>I really don't think they've even come close to a golden age of tech blogging - Engadget summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog, with the entire chain of copy/paste journalists doing their best not to leak traffic to sources or external sites, and then AOL making that official policy, and then the rest of the blogosphere copying them, is probably not the best they can do.