As a former tech blogger who recently sold his site for a low 6 figure, I feel with you guys and I know its always a hard choice to let go one of your employee because you can't afford them anymore.

Spend any amount of time perusing the blogosphere and you'll quickly notice that tech bloggers love to write obituaries.

Leading up to this event a lot of tech bloggers were stating that they suspected Apple was going to turn this market on its head and finally get it right.

"There's nothing novel about the tech bloggers, beyond the fact that a few of them made simple tools for updating Web sites," he wrote on his site last week.

The dubious PC claim was caught, however, by prolific technology journalist Robert X. Cringley and a small army of tech bloggers.

He focused much of his marketing plan on connecting with various bloggers within the fitness and exercise community, or as tech blogger Robert Scoble put it, "get drunk with bloggers."

The initial releases of Xobni were repeatedly criticized by tech bloggers and other journalists for stability and performance problems, as documented on the company's community forum.

The combative tech blogger is to head up the $20m private investment fund, CrunchFund, backed by TechCrunch-owner AOL and several other high-profile venture capitalists.

As the month began, it looked like this year would follow the trend as tech bloggers and reporters wait for the inevitable plunge toward the holiday shopping season.

Gina Marie Trapani (born September 19, 1975) is an American tech blogger, web developer, and writer.