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Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline
Hugh Pickens writes "David Carr writes that headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative, but now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice. Hence the headline for this story that includes a prized key word for one of the 'Gossip Girls' — just the thing to push this Slashdot summary to the top of Google rankings. 'All of the things that make headlines meaningful in print — photographs, placement, and context — are nowhere in sight on the Web,' writes Carr. Headlines have become, as Gabriel Snyder, the recently appointed executive editor of Newsweek.com, says, 'naked little creatures that have to go out into the world to stand and fight on their own.' In this context, 'Jon Stewart Slams Glenn Beck' is the ideal headline, guaranteed to pull in thousands of pageviews. And while nobody is suggesting that the Web should somehow accommodate the glories of The New York Post's headlines in that paper's prime, some of its classics would still work. 'Remember "Headless Body in Topless Bar," perhaps the most memorable New York Post headline ever? It's direct, it's descriptive, and it's oh-so-search-engine-friendly. And not a Taylor Momsen in sight.'"
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, your a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you through a party
Invited everyone you ever knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.
Made you look!
I agree. WhoTF is Taylor Momsen?
Should I care?
(Or does this mean I get a slashdot street-cred point for not knowing who this person is? Or do I lose one? I can never keep track these days.)
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I don't read articles anymore. I just read descriptive URLs. http://example.com/5541957/display-myths-shattered-how-monitor-companies-cook-their-specs
I think the headline on that article was about American Idol, but I'm not sure, as I didn't read the article.
Their they're doing there hair.
My favorite of all time is from an article about a program for creating random (but plausible) headlines, based on permutations of real headlines. I think it was in BYTE.
Tornado kills five, self
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You lose points for not just [f***ing] googling the name.
I tried to, but all that came up was this Slashdot article.
I graduated in 2000 and demand to free lawns from dinosaurs and kids alike!
I... I am in shock right now, truly disturbed... I have debated whether to even post this horrific discovery.. but I just found out, just now, that out of all of the world's sexy people, every single one of them was at one point a disgusting, unsexy child. I know, it's true! My buzz, it has been murdered.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
> ...that leave the impression that the cause of every move in the stock
> market is fully understood.
It is. A stock goes up when the most recent trade was at a higher price than the previous one. It goes down when the most recent trade was for a lower price than the previous one.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
So, err, how did you come across that picture then?
Headline writers seem obsessed with injecting puns, usually at the expense of clarity.
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