Comments on: ATTENTION: A Columnist Needs Your Help! http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/ A personal finance blog dedicated to discussing such topics as budgeting, asset allocation, 401K, IRA, cash flow, insurance, financial planning, portfolio management, and other areas in personal finance. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:00:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: prlinkbiz http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-55104 prlinkbiz Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:53:02 +0000 http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/#comment-55104 JLP- I was in a marriage where I was at odds with my spouse. I was interested in business and investing, and he wasn't- he felt my job as a woman was to cook, clean and raise kids. Now, as a single mom of two little ones, I am in a better spot financially than he is! lol JLP- I was in a marriage where I was at odds with my spouse. I was interested in business and investing, and he wasn’t- he felt my job as a woman was to cook, clean and raise kids. Now, as a single mom of two little ones, I am in a better spot financially than he is! lol

]]> By: rh http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-54503 rh Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:05:27 +0000 http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/#comment-54503 This helps a lot - thanks! This helps a lot – thanks!

]]> By: JLP http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-54172 JLP Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:48:55 +0000 http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/#comment-54172 rh, I see your point. I never really paid attention to that since I don't read my own feed. I doubled the size of the feed. rh,

I see your point. I never really paid attention to that since I don’t read my own feed. I doubled the size of the feed.

]]> By: rh http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-53975 rh Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:37:48 +0000 http://allfinancialmatters.com/2006/12/14/attention-a-columnist-needs-your-help/#comment-53975 Off topic, but this is a great example of a difficulty I have with your blog: the content summaries are not long enough to know what the post is even about without clicking through. I found your blog a while ago through a link and subscribed to it in bloglines, which is how I read pretty much everything online. Although it's a pain, I can, I suppose, appreciate that you want to force people to click through to read content if you're trying to make money off ads. But your content summaries are so much shorter than most people's that I almost never see a post I want to click through on, because I can't ever tell what they're about. In this example, here's what shows up on bloglines: --------------------- ATTENTION: A Columnist Needs Your Help! By JLP on Miscellaneous I recieved an email from a person who writes for a MAJOR magazine, asking me the following: I’m interested in talking to people who are, or have ever been, in a situation where they’ve... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ------------- Based on this, I have no idea if anything in this post is going to interest me or not. Off topic, but this is a great example of a difficulty I have with your blog: the content summaries are not long enough to know what the post is even about without clicking through.

I found your blog a while ago through a link and subscribed to it in bloglines, which is how I read pretty much everything online. Although it’s a pain, I can, I suppose, appreciate that you want to force people to click through to read content if you’re trying to make money off ads. But your content summaries are so much shorter than most people’s that I almost never see a post I want to click through on, because I can’t ever tell what they’re about.

In this example, here’s what shows up on bloglines:

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ATTENTION: A Columnist Needs Your Help!

By JLP on Miscellaneous

I recieved an email from a person who writes for a MAJOR magazine, asking me the following: I’m interested in talking to people who are, or have ever been, in a situation where they’ve…

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Based on this, I have no idea if anything in this post is going to interest me or not.

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