Post Length and Comments
Joel at Stuff and Nonsense believes that longer blog posts prompt fewer comments.

Alliteration Aim in Headline Handiwork
All the blogs I visit regularly that purport to help you improve your blog, invariably discuss the importance of making sure you have "keywords" in your titles (or headlines). These "keywords" as best as I can determine come from a list of terms kept by the Googlemeister in its vault in the bank of Google and if you can happen on the "correct" keywords--and place them auspiciously in your daily post's title (or headline), your traffic will jump from the puny several dozen faithful readers a day you (I) now have to hundreds, even

Communicators: Use Modern Tools to Find Love
I have a husband, so I'm not in the market for a new one. However, if I were, I wouldn't hesitate to use one of the online computer dating services such as eHarmony.com. In our parents' day, couple

The Lost Art of Memorization
During my many years of teaching public speaking, I drilled it into my student speakers' heads that they should extemporize their presentations--never read them, and particularly NEVER memorize them. Nothing is more deadly, I told them, than a memorized speech (although, Roman orator Quintillian would disagree). As the years went by, I found it less and less necessary to argue against memorizing speeches--and it began to dawn on me why. Students don't bother to memorize anything anymore

Fort Hood Coverage Mistake Not Just Spelling Error
Yesterday as I was following the national coverage of the memorial service at Fort Hood, I was aghast to hear a reporter (obviously reading from a prepared script) describe the events that would take place during the service. He noted that a "burglar" would play "Taps."