IÂ’m pretty sure I figured out why most blog names are embarrassingly bad. I mean aside from the fact that most people arenÂ’t very creative and/or clever.

Most bloggers never created any serious plan or anything. They just started blogging, and in many cases they started on blogspot or something and I think they chose a name in thirty seconds or less. And thatÂ’s always a bad move. Long term decisions shouldnÂ’t be made in fifteen seconds while youÂ’re trying to register on blogspot and watching for your bossÂ’s office door to open at the same time.

The ones I find to be horrifically bad are the long tongue twisters like “Ramblings of Inter-terrestrial Musings of Thoughts of an Introspective Geek.” You get the picture. In fact, don't use any of those words if you're starting a blog.

IÂ’m not too thrilled with the puns on political parties either. The whole right and left act is stale an unimaginative. Unlike Shank, I donÂ’t have a problem with eponymous blog names. ItÂ’s honest and straight forward.

Blog names are important. I simply will not visit a blog if the blog name is shitty, boring or cliché. I think a lot of people know they fucked it up but it’s hard to change once it’s out there.

My advice for anyone starting a blog these days is stay away from the words:

Rantings, ramblings, thoughts, right, left and “the.” It’s been done. And re-done.

In addition, don’t look through the dictionary or thesaurus for long words with too many syllables. Certainly don’t look in the thesaurus for new versions of rambling, raving and thoughts. In fact, stay the fuck away from all words beginning with the letter “R.”

There. Now off you go.

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1 hmmm.. eponymous.. OH! A new word for me ! Yay Paul! "of or relating to an eponym" wait what the... "A name of a drug, structure, or disease based on or derived from the name of a person" Yeah, definitely... blogs are a disease

Posted by: Oorgo at May 02, 2006 04:19 PM (lM0qs)

2 No "R"?!?!?! Fuck.

Posted by: Ted at May 02, 2006 08:33 PM (+OVgL)

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