Fighting Back Against Lists

Matt Haughey (of Metafilter fame) on the tendency of online content to take the form of lists and how-to's for easy scanning and ingestion:

Seriously, the top of digg, delicious, reddit, and every other link aggregator seems to be clogged with Lists of Vital Things You Should Know. After seeing dozens of them fly by every single day, I'm starting to think it's just lazy headline writing that gets promoted up thanks to our nanosecond attention-span RSS readin' latte drinkin' ruby on rails codin' getting things done task managin' nerd culture. Cool it with the lists. Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff. I have time.