Pete Rojas, former editor of the online gadget blog Gizmodo has gone out on his own to start Engadget, which is for all intents and purposes a complete copy of Gizmodo. That’s too bad; Gizmodo under Rojas’ stewardship was the premier gadget blog, but has turned of late into a simple rehash of press releases. Engadget looks like it’ll be the same as the old Gizmodo, with the crafty editorial tone that Rojas brought to it, but it also doesn’t seem to be anything more than gadgets. That leaves both competing in the exact same space, biting entries from one another in a “blog blogging itself” circularity. Pity.
In any case, we here at StreetTech wish Rojas and the team at Engadget luck in their new project. We’ve already readjusted our bookmarks..