FROM: AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH PRAYER: "From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!"--- Random thoughts, observations, ideas, and questions that bombard the brain as one falls to sleep but never enter the world of dreams. Hence, they remain incomplete or unanswered and continue to "Go Bump in the Night".
General observation, and such observations are often erroneous.
The shorter the blog entry, the more comments. Is this an indication that bloggers, again in general, have Attention Deficit Disorder (with or without Hyperactivity)?
This short entry will test that hypothesis.
posted by the doc at 9:49 AM
Southern, retired rural Pediatrician. Family oriented. Scottish Heritage. Presbyterian. Opinionated, but not close minded. Open to new ideas, if intelligently presented. Adverse to B.S. While often foolish, does not suffer fools lightly. Patience not my forte.
5 Comments:
You're so right. I've noticed the same thing. If I post a 2,000 word essay, I'll get one comment. 20 word blurb usually nets me 10 comments.
Odd.
Im not sure what the Blog reader demo's are. It does not suprise me that they appreciate shorter, to-the-point entries. Online content readers by nature are A.D.D. proned. Could be worth a white paper.
OK, I've been posting short entries as well. Your hypothesis is definitely correct.
I'm not so sure I agree. Perhaps it's that in a longer post, you have pretty much said all that needs to be said, and the reader doesn't have anything to add.
Or perhaps I'm just trying to convince myself that I don't have ADD.
In all honesty, I love the long posts. But sometimes I just don't know what to say in response to them that hasn't already been said.
I think it has more to do with that fact that people that spend a lot of time online like to scan/read.
I know that I tend to read something online that has a sentance for a paragraph - makes it so much easier to read.
Seems that the words don't get lost in themselves.
"Can't see the forest through the trees"
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