Ever since somebody decided "Web 2.0" existed, there's been a big slew of these awful new "IT stuff" sites that look like they've been designed using a checklist of Web 2.0 mainstays and buzzwords.
User ratings? Check. Submit news?
Check. Blogs? Check.
Annoying multipage articles? Check. Attention whoring abuse of social bookmarking sites at the end of every article?
Check. More banner ads than content on any given page? Check.
User comments? Check. Half of it is actually a decade old and was pioneered by Slashdot, but thanks to the magic of buzzwords, everything old is new.
And with all of this stuff in place, they invariably fail to even attempt the final hurdle: creating decent content. Instead of picking one of the two available routes (create good content vs Slashdot-style aggregation), they seem to like to go halfway, with awkward "stories" like this half-boiled Red Hat GRUB HOWTO masquerading as "Breaking News". Sure, maybe these are probably all honest people trying to kick-start their journalism careers.
But if so, what the hell are they doing throwing this crap around? Even Katz was more interesting than this trash.
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