Many times if I search delicious.com for certain tags, I find numbered lists – sometimes ranked – in the popular division. Lists such as:
- Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World
- 8 Things You Should Know About Cable Service
- 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time
- The 15 greatest board games of all time
I normally feel very tempted to follow links like these instead of others. I expect to encounter an author who took time and trouble to present me only the best resources in a certain category. Ergo: if you want to draw attention with something you write, mold it into a list. You will most likely attract a lot of first time visitors, but if your list is just a load of crap, there won’t be many returning visits.
Initially I started this post because I wanted to present a top 3 of extra ordinary mindmapping apps (I do that later this life). But when writing previous paragraphs I thought it would be a fun idea to do a top ten of odd lists. Just to see how many visitors that would attract to my blog. So I went on search and found lists like:
- 40 amazing female role models for web designers
- Top 10 Free Time Wasting Sites on the Net
- Top 10 Naked People on Google Earth
- 1.001 rules for my unborn son
- Top 10 strangest Lego creations
But than I noticed Dave Kristula’s Top Ten stupidest lists and realised everything I could ever think of doing has already been done by someone else. Besides that, heavy-minded as I am, I actually lack the right sense of humor to write entertaining stories. So I better stop here and start writing something that really matters, like Three best mindmapping apps.
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