Note To Opinionated Bloggers And Their Weaknesses
To everyone who felt the need to add something to Hugh McLeod’s whine about the A-List (link condom out of principle), let me tell you that the reason behind the entry not falling traffic was, but a blog eons old strategy. If twitter is so March 07, this strategy was so Fall 06. We call it linkbaiting.
When do you linkbait?
If you’re not as whorish as our bestest friend [tag]Scoble[/tag] and prefer not to loose time on every new network platform, gathering exactly the same list of friends you already have in your other 2 months old profile, or if you’re a member of … lets say a popular blog directory which has more than quadrupled the number of rulers. Add to that almost 20 times as much of members to the newest and designographically [sic] most elitist network and your shortage of time to write note after note in their community… then you whine linkbait.
And over the next days you admire the sudden flux of new readers. Readers who just discovered a graying A-Lister, a blogger trying to cope with the cruel reality of not being discovered anymore like in the old days, not having found a Blue Monster SequelTM and who’s still waiting for the next PR gig to go viral.
All those conditions combined, bring out the best blogging techniques in any A-Lister, and suddenly they remember that every columnist lurks.
Now Whine is the device!
Whine, sit back… and enjoy how everyone falls into the trap.
I guess exactly that is what makes an A-Lister. Knowing how to play the audience, the lurkers.
Well done, Hugh 
What do you think?