Peter Rojas and Ryan Block are among the world’s most recognized bloggers on any topic, not just tech. The website they built together, Engadget, is one of the world’s most-read blogs. Engadget and its crosstown rival site Gizmodo set the bar for fast reporting of gearhead news far, far above the heads of the older, deeper-pocketed publications whose audiences they stole. (Technically, I don’t think Block is a “founder,” but he certainly made the site his own.) Today the pair are launching a new gadget site, Gdgt, that lets gadget fans rather than hired writers generate the content. The site’s premise is simple: The only thing better than Engadget would be something like Engadget that lets anyone crazy enough contribute. gdgt-logo-webRojas and Block each left Engadget separately after a few years of frenetic round-the-clock blogging. Here’s their one-paragraph description of how Gdgt differs from Engadget. In short, they’re crowdsourcing what used to be done by a small team of young writers:
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