Our third ever ‘Highly Recommended’ award goes to Pete Cashmore’s excellent mashable.com.

Why mashable?

Firstly, mashable has some VERY good writers. My personal faves include; Jennifer Van Grove, Adam Ostrow, Stan Schroeder and Pete Cashmore of course. These guys know how to make tech news interesting, without being sensationalist. The quality of the writing is excellent and the consistency of their output is as good as you will see in any news publication – not just those in tech news or online.

Secondly, mashable has managed to ’somehow’ stay engaged with it’s readers; even though its readership is huge and growing fast. The mashable team are listening to what their readers want and they provide it.

They get the whole ’social thing.’ You only have to either read the comments on mashable or see the interaction Pete Cashmore and the team have with their readers on Twitter / FriendFeed etc, to see what a great relationship they have. In fact, according to compete.com, traffic into mashable is growing fast.

Thanks mashable

Over the past year, I’ve noticed myself reading and recommending mashable more and more. I have to admit, after listening to mashable’s young founder, Pete Cashmore, getting the better of Jason Calacanis on Leo Laporte’s TWiT podcast, it was obvious why. Pete’s a smart cookie – not a smart ass.

I have no hesitation whatsoever in highly recommending mashable to you – Go and read it now!

I would also like to personally acknowledge the role mashable played, along with a few other great tech sites, in inspiring me to write this tech news blog.