Christmas Card Communication
Christmas cards bedecked our living room when I was a child. They arrived in the mail by the dozens, starting soon after Thanksgiving and my mother immediately hung them from the mantel or around doorways. These multi-colored greetings were a major part of holiday decoration at our house

Let's Test This Hypothesis: Longer Posts Relate to Fewer Comments
In my last post, I indicated that I tend to believe that longer blog posts will receive fewer comments. If I were still working as an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, conducting research on various communication-related topics, I might very well have decided to test this hypothesis for one of my studies. Actually, it would be relatively easy to do.When one variable (in this case, the number of comments) changes in a particular way when anoth

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