Why Are All The Good Tech Sites And Blogs USA Based?

Something that has really been bothering me recently is the amount of time I spend on tech sites that have mostly American themed content. Don’t get me wrong I love sites like Techcrunch, Mashable and Digg but I would love good European equivalants or copycat versions of these sites as a good chunk of the content has no relevance to me whatsoever. I mean do I really care about stories like these that I constantly have to skip past?

Digg

Techcrunch

Mashable

Before people jump in and say there is already a Techcrunch UK and there are plenty of clones of Digg as well as most of the major publications like The Times and The Guardian having good tech sections I just don’t find them all that interesting at all and rarely ever read them.

Now the most logical explanation for this is that all of the good tech companies and therefore stories are happening over in the USA so it is only natural for the good writers and networkers like Pete Cashmore who founded Mashable (it grew from a small bedroom in Scotland to one of the top 10 blogs in the world) to move and base themselves in the USA.

But what annoys me is that although we have good factual coverage from the newspapers over here we can’t seem to get a blog with a thriving community that reports the news from the ground with good local knowledge. Techcrunch UK seems to be based on the London tech community and as very little relevance to the rest of Europe and each country will have their own small blog like Web 2.0 here in Ireland and Loic in France but by in large they are side projects by passionate techies who are way to busy running their businesses to bother about blogging.

Isn’t it about time that we got a good group of writers together under the banner of a professional blog and started covering the tech news and scene over here properly? With a population of 731,000,000 in Europe you can’t tell me that there aren’t enough interesting stories out there or enough people willing to read the blog?