The tone of my comment probably did not deserve such a gentlemanly response, and to the extent that I unfairly dug at Wired's coverage priorities in my effort to be a funny bastard, I apologize.
Nevertheless, the construction "YYYY: The Year That X" is a prelude to almost certain under-delivery, and (worse) sounds like a claim that X is The Thing About YYYY we should care the most about.
Ah, no problem. Plus you gave me the opportunity to give a shout-out to my writers.
And, I'll cop to your criticism. I assigned the story to Kravets, saying I didn't want a typical year end in review story and instead wanted to pick one theme. (That said, the Verge did a very nice year end wrap-up with a cool design).
It's inevitable in the world of journalism and blogging to overpromise in headlines and we'll always get heat for it -- probably rightly so. But I do promise that while I'm running Threat Level, we won't stoop to Business Insider's tactic of turning on the CAPS lock key.
Nevertheless, the construction "YYYY: The Year That X" is a prelude to almost certain under-delivery, and (worse) sounds like a claim that X is The Thing About YYYY we should care the most about.