The "About" page: Your Internet junk drawer?

That is a pretty poorly written article with some broad generalisations based on 'a five-minute tour of sites in my bookmarks list'.

The auther states 'You don’t really know what you should put in it'. Umm, I would think an 'About page' is pretty obvious: Contains meta-data relating to the site.

It is part of a bigger whole, so if the rest isn't that good, chances are the 'About Page' isn't that great either...