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How right you are about lists and numbers in the title. By far the most popular article on our blog is 19 Exceptional Web Resources for Spiritually Minded People. It is a good article with lots of resources, but, in my opinion, is not the best on our blog. It got tons of StumbleUpon traffic a two months ago, and SU still sends traffic to the article.
Thanks for another entertaining article.
Clay, dogonnit, you're a funny one you :)
P.S. I love it.
You crack me up! But you forgot something:
Get up early. No one is productive unless they get up befoe dawn. In fact, be really productive and rise in the middle of the night.
oh, and...
Become a vegetarian. I have no idea why it makes you more productive, but apparently it is is VITALLY IMPORTANT!
All my LIST posts are the ones that do the best, but fuck it I'm a rebel. I am going to use paragraphs and sentences because I can write and I only want readers who have at least a 1 minute attention span!
Therefore, I shall resign myself to never becoming a hugely successful blogger. Whatever that is...
Great work AGAIN. I think you make me sick with how many great article ideas you have.
I'm going home, I don't want to play with you anymore.
* sulk *
Kelly
PS. Click on my link and you'll see BLUEHOST is experiencing server issues and SHE-POWER is currently the site for the Queensgate Baptist Church. They tell me it'll be fixed today, but who knows. I might have to become a minister and learn Korean/Chinese (?)
You forgot using bold font in strategic places, which makes it easy for readers to quickly scan your long article, and pretend to make intelligent comments even though they haven't really read it.
Good to know that all is well and that it's just a technical glitch.
Kelly@SHE-POWER: you got it! I'm hearing Steve Pavlina in your comment. I am a meat eating, sleep until 10 am kinda guy, unproductive as hell, and yet somehow manage to make it through life. Impossible, I know.
Thanks for a great read, Clay. I laughed hard.
Or maybe you're turning into the John C Dvorak of productivity.
The person who loses perspective loses everything that is truly valuable, including themselves.
Although, your title should use "Powerful", not "Power" -- since powerful is FULL of power, you know what I mean?
;-)
Evelyn
Also, thanks for accepting these humor articles. They're happening more frequently, as you can tell, and I'm glad that you stick around despite them.
Tao relates to the chinese stuffs. Thus it's definitely more appropiate to quote anything that relates to zen and all that ey. :)
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Keep it up Clay.You keep me coming back.:)
Really I just wanted to be the first commenter. Dammit--how'd all those people beat me? Someone should write a post on how to be the first commenter on other people's posts.
This is hilarious. Sadly enough, it does seem the be the best way to get readers.
Thought out articles just don't seem to grab people's interest in the same way. As soon as you put numbers on something, you get more readers and comments.
Thanks for making me smile. Added to my bookmarks, and a stumble.
David
I do not think there is a best way.
loved it.
Ronit
http://www.ronitbaras.com
Excellent post.
"That ain't workin' that's the way you do it, make the money with"...fake creativity.
That was a "Jeez I hope none of the people that do this take it personally, even though I'm right they may banish me to blogging oblivion and not allow me into their cliques."
Up until that pay it safe caveat it was pure cutting edge brilliance, now get on the editing button and sharpen it up again!
1. Our human "rat brain" likes shortcuts. We prefer to have someone else tell us what to do than tell ourselves what to do.
2. Lists are pure marketing ploys to attract the rat brain and "steal our attention."
3. Bloggers don't use lists to provide useful information. They use lists to attract more readers, hopefully through the leverage of social networks.
4. Most lists are created under the guise of productivity but actually have quite the opposite effect: They are completely anti-productive because they have a "dumbing down" effect and distract people from finding their own path.
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10. to Avoid Lists: http://financialphilosopher.typepad.com/thefina...
Clay, I believe you are a good enough writer to attract more readers without the use of lists. I hope you soon return to your usual higher level of intelligence.
Disclaimer: I must admit that, in disgust, I completely skimmed to the bottom of the post without catching the humor element. I will say, however, that if you truly believe lists are not useful, then this will be your last list!
Thanks for the "list!"
Can you write about 75 ways to write good comment spam next?
Great post Clay, I'm sure I can learn from these. =D
This will continue until all productivity blogs are basically nothing followed by links to other "articles" that are nothing with more links following.
Oh yeah Clay ... don't forget that they can write down their goals or make video tapes of their goals. Cause' everyone sure does love watching video tapes of themselves that they themselves made.
There must be a wise quote on the wisdom of humour...
*good post*
However, you could headline your article easily as "Top 70 hints how to make high-score on social bookmarking sites"... There is a reason why you find so many "hacks", "35 tips" etc.: They just get you readers (probably you recognize on your article as well)
Lets see. There's the random jumping for joy photo, there's quotes (tons of them towards the end), points, hack-tify tips, GTD (the term was mentioned once!) and children, and did I mention people jumping images (there's 2 people jumping in the photo that I used! hehe).
http://winningeveryone.com/happiness/happiness-...
It'll be awesome to see more parody entries from you Clay! Cheers! :D
How about a list of 100 lists you have to make...?
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xx. Don't be afraid of blatent Plagiarism
A true list maker er... I mean spontaneous (as in human combustion) paradigm metaphorical numbered guide system (self proclaimed) guru generator STEALS from others. Hint: (in sequence) google(v.) "self help", [copy], [paste], [select all], [bullets and numbering], [number], [post as original work!]
Thanks!
I like your attitude here, Clay, and I hope this gets lots of circulation around the blogosphere or whatever they're calling it nowadays. This is a great type of self-awareness within the "scene" or "community" of lifehacking.
Your article has inspired me to be more productive -- in thinking about writing more, about getting things done. Without your article, I would've been a lost soul in this grueling 4-hour-workweek, making list after list of things that I should have made a list about. Thanks you so much for:
1. being so inspirational
2. being so gracious as to help poor-old-me to reach my full
potential as a semi-talented php programmer.
3. providing a clear roadmap to my success in being a douchebag.
Thank you.
This single post made me subscribe to your blog, and it made me sit down with my own blog and go "Huh. He's right."
Thanks for opening my eyes - and my soul. I think this, more than any other post, article, book, or magazine I've ever read, will make my blog a good one.
Dave
thanks, too, because i was depressed.