Robinson Meyer is tweeting up an interesting storm about the “death” of “tech blogging” — tied to Gizmodo’s announcement of some impressive new hires today. To get past the scarequotes, here’s Rob.

With @gizmodo’s massive refresh, this feels obvious but worth saying:“Tech blogging”—as the genre was long defined—no longer exists.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

TechCrunch established the “tech blogging” form, when—after going with ~any~ start-up news—it launched a whole blog about phones in ~2006.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

50% start-ups, 50% phones. “Tech blogging” as genre. The NYT’s Bits—a tech blog! at the NYT!—opens shop in 2007: bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/bit…

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

Last Oct., @nicknoted complained about a “general dearth of news” in Gizmodo’s beat: jimromenesko.com/2012/10/15/gaw… Too few new phones, companies.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

(@alexismadrigal called & covered the *reasons* behind tech journalism’s demise all the way back in April 2012: theatlantic.com/technology/arc… )

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

Since spring of 2012, you could watch the tech beat break. What were business stories, media stories, policy stories were labeled “tech.”

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

Slow news day? This science story kinda sorta qualifies as “tech.” And, uh, hey! Here’s an architecture story that involves cell phones!

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

With @bldgblog & @paleofuture, @gizmodo enters (my fav) part of tech: gizmodo.com/new-faces-new-… Structure, history, ethics. Weird Techblogging.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

Tech journalism, ca. 2013: • SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Ars.• COVER WHATEVER MIGHT BE TECH NEWS: The Verge, &c.• WEIRD STRUCTURES: @gizmodo!

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

The death of Web 2.0-flavored techblogging is worth celebrating because—maybe—it’ll end the rampant ahistoricism of technology journalism.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

The best part of Web 2.0, of “social media,” of new(!) smartphones(!) was the rambunctious hope. But you can hope and know your own history.

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

Media has a history & policy has a history & higher education has a history, all of them riven with tech—yay, cover them! When appropriate!

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013

You could think of what he’s saying as the Revenge of the Liberal Arts Majors.

While we’re talking about multi-tweet runs, might as well link to Ben Mathis-Lilly’s defense of new media terminology.