For my internship, I have to write articles for both print and web form. I didn't know until very recently that there was a difference between the two forms. Paragraphs for web articles have to be shorter (not more than two or three sentences), and you have to get right to the point, because an audience on the web has a much shorter attention span than an audience in print. You also have to make short, snappy headlines for each short paragraph. I also had to read the style manual for... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Blog entries with eye-catching titles, and the distribution list
Do you ever write blog entries with eye-catching titles? I must admit, that I've written a few entries that were specifically aimed at getting clicks. For example, I once wrote an entry with the title "SEX*SEX*SEX*SEX." It wasn't about sex, but the topic of the entry was, like this one, about people who use provocative titles to get a readership. Why do people want that readership so much? A few days ago I posted my distribution list and asked, "am I reading you? Should I be reading you?" The... Sign in to see full entry.