Today’s pet peeve is very simple: Anyone who writes for the web should have to, up top, supply the date said article/blog post was posted. If a multi-author site (or a single author site, but with a visiting voice), the author’s name up front, as well. Why not?

This has always irritated me – I’d read through this or that well-meaning (and interesting) article only to discover it was written in 20XX, before this or that happened.

With politics, especially, timing matters.

It’s frustrating to read a long article/blog entry and then, after three screen of text, you see that it was written even a week ago. In internet/political time, that’s years.

And what’s the downside to this suggestion? Maybe you won’t get the read? You already got the click…

Why not??