CES from afar

Last year, I had the privilege to blog CES live for Engadget (see if you can find me in the pic at the right). This year, my experience is somewhat vicarious. I am, of course, checking Engadget regularly, and will be sure to practice my F5 stroke for the Gates keynote tonight. But there’s a new player on the Vegas strip this year, and I’m helping it from afar; we officially launched the Consumer Reports Electronics Blog this weekend. CREB isn’t intended to compete with Engadget and other tech blogs; it would be pointless to try. However, we believe there is a mainstream audience for electronics news that can benefit from the expertise of CR’s product testers and editors. We’re not going to be updating 40 times a day, we’re not going to live-blog keynotes and we’re not going to do unboxings (unfortunately). What we are going to do is provide early insights from the people at CR who do the hands-on testing and reporting, much as we’ve been doing in our Cars Blog for close to a year. For everything else, we’ll be checking Engadget. And wearing out that F5.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 7th, 2007 at 5:30 pm