Hey, I just write the text; some guy in editing writes the headlines. There are 435 posts from 63 LDS blogs in my Google Reader. Since I don't have 18 hours to invest at the moment, I'm going to pick the post titles I like best. Titles really matter in this business. Be clever.
The best of the batch: We kill because we care at BCC. Awesome title; okay post.
Other titles that should have caught your eye:
- Delusions of Candor.
- A Drunken Weekend. Money quote: "As the weekend rolled on, the children must have figured out that we weren’t drinking, so they followed us everywhere we went."
- Content analysis of a Deseret Book catalog. How can you not follow this link?
- Living in a Convection Oven.
- Mountain Meadows documents lost, suppressed or destroyed. If the story is good enough, you don't need to be clever.
- Closing Time. Damn.
- As Long as They're Changing Things at CES ...
- Dramatic, Eerie, Violent, Erotic. Yes, most people will click on a title with the word "eerie" in it.
Unless the title says something about the eerie canal. (With the exception of an "eerie" post about said canal.)
Posted by: BHodges | May 29, 2008 at 07:54 AM
PS- How on earth did you not note my "Implicit Confidence in God: Part 5"?
Part FIVE, for Pete's sake, Dave.
Posted by: BHodges | May 29, 2008 at 07:57 AM
Ah, Dave. Free advertising overcomes the revelation of the mediocrity of my writing. Besides, anyone familiar with me knew about that anyway.
Posted by: John C. | May 29, 2008 at 08:05 AM
haha! yea! true! but hey dave i join you in mybloglog. and you forgot to mention my post "My Other Girl."
Posted by: kenjebz | May 29, 2008 at 11:55 PM
LOL, thanks for the reference. I like to make my blog title interesting, otherwise no one will read them.
However, it hasn't made me rich. I've earned 4 whole dollars on Google AdSense, so I'm not about to retire.
Posted by: April Durham | May 30, 2008 at 08:34 AM
Perhaps you should write a how-to guide on creating clever blog post titles.
Posted by: Joseph Antley | Jun 09, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Dave: Are you ever coming back?
Posted by: fifthgen | Jun 11, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Yes, I'm still around. Real life and T&S have been siphoning off my regularly scheduled blog time for the moment.
Posted by: Dave | Jun 12, 2008 at 08:38 PM