Alliterative Lists

Four ways to ensure your blog entries are popular

1) Cool Use lots of cool buzz words and wear sunglasses in all your avatar pictures
2) Crisp Use short words and keep it to the point
3) Clear Don't get off topic, or you will lose the people who follow you based on subject.
4) Celery Eat lots of celery.

Now is that a good list of pointers for bloggers? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps they are good points, but when I see lists like that, I always wonder how much the accuracy and efficacy of the list has been compromised to achieve the alliteration.

Perhaps Coolness, Crispness, Timeliness and Brevity were a better choice for the items in the list, but if the author is obsessed with only using 'C' words, the latter two might fall off the table.

It gets more concerning when you see lists of 8 or 10 points all starting with the same letter. By the time you do that many, you are really searching for words with the same letter. Sure, English is pretty versatile. Instead of "Timeliness" I could perhaps say "Clock" or "Coordination" - but unless you luck out with the synonyms, it is usually clear that you're digging by that point.

Anyway that was just bugging me this morning after reading through a few blog posts purporting to guide my entrepreneurial life: success means using the letter "C" or something I guess.

Researchinator gets on to more important things, the letter 'D' perhaps...