Well, this might be a good example for PG's request #3: "New News".
My initial inclination is to deride the Guardian's obvious lack of ideas -- it's easy for me to laugh at this me-too article, because I'm a news.yc reader already. But from the point of view of a Guardian reader who has barely heard of PG, this might be a very good article. It certainly reflects my opinion that journalism would be better if it spent more time linking people to good content written by credible experts and less time misquoting them, jeering at them for being mere "bloggers", or trying to pretend that ignoring them will make them all go away.
But, yes, the title makes no sense and is obvious linkbait. Amateurish linkbait. The Guardian's editors need to hire some linkbaiting consultants with Digg experience.
My initial inclination is to deride the Guardian's obvious lack of ideas -- it's easy for me to laugh at this me-too article, because I'm a news.yc reader already. But from the point of view of a Guardian reader who has barely heard of PG, this might be a very good article. It certainly reflects my opinion that journalism would be better if it spent more time linking people to good content written by credible experts and less time misquoting them, jeering at them for being mere "bloggers", or trying to pretend that ignoring them will make them all go away.
But, yes, the title makes no sense and is obvious linkbait. Amateurish linkbait. The Guardian's editors need to hire some linkbaiting consultants with Digg experience.