Blogging Tips Part 1: Attract Attention

If you want people to keep returning to your blog, you have to keep drawing attention to yourself. And I find that two of the best ways to do this are:

1. Include possibly scandalous pictures with every post. These need not have to do with the post itself. (See above. And, well, below.)

2. Tell possibly scandalous stories--in my case, about teaching. For example, here's a story that, like so many others, involves me not being able to keep my mouth shut at the crucial moment:

Student: Mr. O'Brien, on our educational retreat yesterday [insert name here] literally compared having sex to chewing gum.
Me: No way. That's just all wrong. I mean for starters, sex is way more expensive than gum.