Writing online

[andrewducker]

Some of you may have noticed that when I'm writing here I tend to write in short paragraphs. Two sentences at most, if I remember. Heck, if I really want people's attention then each sentence gets its own line.

It's nice to be validated sometimes - which is why I was fascinated by this article on how we read online, and how to get people to pay attention. I'm not about to start bolding text, or putting in vast swathes of links, but it is interesting to see what works - and to notice it working on me.

Comments

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

What a neat article. I didn't realize that I've used a lot of those things already to make my blogs easier to read.

When I was writing long blogs, I would sometimes bold the subjects of a paragraph to make it easy to summarize the whole thing in a scan.

Those blogs got more comments too. Now I know why.