I read a while back that people are drawn to lists, especially ones that might tell them something about themselves. It's why you see so many lifestyle magazines with numbers on their covers. 61 ways to tell if someone dislikes you more than spinach, 92 ways to reuse that butter wrapper ... you know what I mean.
The list I was drawn to last night offered 7 things about blogs. Unfortunately, when I went looking for it this morning, I found that there are apparently 7 x 70 things we need to know about blogs, all broken up among various people with their own opinions. So, I'll be sharing what I remember of the first 7.
Let's see ... there was advice about putting pictures with posts (I tried that two weeks ago, so I get 1/40 of a point) Videos are good, too. Another said create your own attractive, compelling layout instead of using a template. (I get, maybe, 1/82 of a point for at least not using Wordpress, which is the one they dissed in the column.) Don't write about yourself; nobody wants to hear about it. Even though I get that, I obviously get zippo, nada, nothing in the way of points.
However, in my defense, I'm not plummeting into negative numbers, a scale I wouldn't have thought existed until last night when I checked out a blog that a craigslist poster wanted help editing. Not only was it first-person (with no paragraph breaks) she immediately launched into a diatribe about the married man she's having an affair with.
That's right. I don't care.
Part two of that advice: You're supposed to try to use the blog to tell people about something they might not otherwise know. I think I'll try that next time out. Won't those things be hard to come by, though? Wait, I guess not. I just this minute went back to the search results and noticed one blogger's answer to the problem: "7 creative uses for poop."
Finally (if you're counting, this is only 4): Try to post regularly.
Hmm ... I'll have to work on that one, too.
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