I was sifting through the OTN del.icio.us account and as I did, it occured to me just how important it is to make sure your blog post, or website, or online article has a killer first line!

If you’re familiar with using del.icio.us, you’ll know that you can add notes to those sites you bookmark, especially if you intend to share your bookmarks. This is useful if using the links roll feature in delicious for your blog or wiki.

Check out this sample of bookmarked sites below. Many of the notes are copied from the posts themselves.

• Does the first line jump out at you?
• Does it tell you something about the post itself?
• Does it give you a sense of context around which the post might have been written?
• Does it make you want to read on?

Of course, some approaches and writing styles may hook some readers but not others. Blogging is all about good writing as much as getting your message ‘out there’.

What do YOU think makes an interesting blog post?

If you’re looking for ways to refresh your own blog writing, try these sites for starters.

• Ten Tips for writing a blog post
• How To Write Good Blog Posts More Quickly
• How to write a blog post

Happy blogging!

technorati tags:blogging, writing, tips, good_blogging, delicious, link_roll

Blogged with Flock

Lingro is one of the coolest web services I’ve come across – it enables you to open a website or document in the Lingro window and then get a translation or dictionary definition of every word on the page just by clicking on them.

You can also create a wordlist of every new term that you have learnt and play a simple flashcards game to test your knowledge of the translations or definitions. The possibilities of this site are enormous.

Using Lingro with Wikipedia

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Using Lingro with a word document

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Using the Lingro wordlist

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Playing the Lingro flashcard game

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