Headline first

February 13, 2008

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I’m a big fan of the ability to create draft posts within Wordpress - it means I can write a series of ‘hold’ pieces to use when I can’t come up with any original ideas.

Unfortunately what it really ends up being is a brain dump location. It basically works like this: I come up with ideas, half write features and ignore them until I forget what they’re about.

Sometime the half written feature will be almost finished - everything but the summary paragraph. Other times it will be just a headline with a body link.

Lately though - I’ve found myself thinking of something I want to write and dumping the headline into a post, pressing save and hoping I’ll get the words later on.

In fact, the last five headlines I published were sent from my mobile phone using the Opera Mini Browser (I recommend this to ANYONE not using an iPhone).

Headlines include: Anti-Social Creature, We’re so vain, Un-Valentines Day, Bush kills US tourism, Live to pod radio, Time to Google it, What to do with a URL and more.

The problem is - the chance of me actually turning those headlines into a real article are pretty slim.

Every time I open Wordpress to write up one of the ideas, I end up seeing something pop up in the Google sidebar or having a completely new idea that I write up instead (like this one).

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