[ripb]

>And why does the tech segment even give a crap?

Because tech isn't an industry any more, it's part of mainstream culture, and thus tech "news" has to be watered down or diluted to suit the mainstream audience, hence tech "news" segments being filled with celebrity news and opinion pieces on how evil the industry is because men got into it first.

I attended the Dublin Web Summit[1] recently where talks were given by industry giants including Peter Thiel, John Sculley and many more [2]. It also included a talk by Eva Longoria which amounted to a bizarre and comparatively unsubstantial interview about the life of a celebrity and yet the same tech media reported it as the highlight of the week. Indeed it was the most tweeted about talk of the entire event.

So this is the direction mainstream tech culture is going in, and as tech remains "cool", and being a "geek" remains a quirky attribute people stick on their Twitter profiles, we can expect much more of it to come.

1. http://websummit.net/ If you haven't already heard of it

2. http://websummit.net/speakers Speakers list