It My Weblog Look A Lot More Interesting
Lisa wonders where Jay gets his clever entry titles. I'm willing the bet—no more than a Canadian nickel—that he gets them from song lyrics. Lately, though, his titles have been looking a lot like subject headings.
Nobody asked, but my method of entry titles of late has been to highlight a phrase from either the principal quote in each entry or a turn of phrase of my own that I felt was particularly clever (at the time, at least). It used to be that the title of the item being blogged was the entry title, but that got old fast. It makes my weblog look a lot more interesting when the title of the weblog entries are interesting (this month is turning out well in that respect). Entry titles are micro-teasers, especially when that's all one sees initially in aggregators, and, well, the more interesting-sounding they are, the more likely I'm going to read the entries behind them.
