Since I am pondering doing the MovableType to WordPress conversion, I’ve done a bit of reflecting on the last two years of blogging. Nothing profound has emerged, but I did start to think about the part of a blog post I spend the most time on (obviously it is not spell checking) — coming up with a good title.
A good post title, grabs attention, sets the mode, and I often tried (in vain) to hit the punny spot. It’s worth being original, and just not having a dry, ‘just the facts ma’am’ sort of title.
So I thought, why not peruse all of them via a MT template that displays all blog entries listed my title in alpha order? The template was a snap, the meat of it being:
<ol class="posted"> <MTEntries sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend"> <li> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"> <$MTEntryTitle$></a> (<$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y %I:%M %p$>) </li> </MTEntries> </ol>
So here it is, not available in any store, the full collection A-Z, 837 (and counting) CogDogBlog’s Greatest (and not so Great) Hits. And I could recall the topics of most of them except for a few… My personal of the best include:
- A Sheep in Wolve’s Clothing: I am Teaching Online (February 9, 2004 10:12 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/02/09/sheep.php - BackTrack to TrackBack (April 19, 2003 03:35 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/04/19/trackback.php - Bb-igfoot: Are there More than Blurry Photos of ePortfolios? (November 15, 2004 04:12 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/11/15/bbigfoot.php - Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design… I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test (September 14, 2004 10:59 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/09/14/yawn.php - Breeze– A Mighty Wind– But the Audio Editing Blows (March 6, 2004 11:14 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/03/06/breeze.php - But Will Flickr Have A Manicure As Well? (January 24, 2005 08:26 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/24/flickr.php - Captain Biff Flies the MLX Lead Balloon, Powered By A Breeze (March 12, 2004 10:29 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/03/12/captain_biff_flies_t.php - Creating RSS (bottle opener optional) (July 29, 2003 03:17 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/07/29/creating_rss_bottle_.php - Flickr: The Land of 10,000 Memes (December 30, 2004 01:01 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/12/30/flickr.php - Hey (Hic)… this Merlot is tasting better… (September 10, 2003 09:58 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/09/10/hey_hic_this_merlot_.php - Hey Phentermine Pusher: You Left Your Roach Prints in Our Spam Honey Pot (December 13, 2004 09:10 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/12/13/gotcha.php - I Blog Therefore I am… (April 19, 2003 09:18 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/04/19/cdb.php - I Can’t (Blah blah blah blah) Read Long (Blah blah blah) Academic Papers (January 24, 2005 07:03 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/24/blah.php - I’m Bored As Hell And I’m Not Gonna ……. zzzzz (March 7, 2005 04:41 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/03/07/im_bored_as_hell_and.php - It’s Brown But Looks Awfully Familiar (December 19, 2004 10:10 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/12/19/familiar.php - Kung-Log: Neo Says “Whoah” (December 10, 2003 03:55 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/12/10/kung_log.php - Larry, Curly, or Moe on the Server Install (January 7, 2005 05:44 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/07/stooge.php - Learning Object Reuse Acknowledgment (an idea, an acronym, and not much more) (February 13, 2004 11:23 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/02/13/lora.php - Look What the Referer Dragged In (November 14, 2003 07:11 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/11/14/look_what_the_refere.php - Mamas, Don’t Let Your Programmers Be Web Designers (February 29, 2004 05:09 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/02/29/programmers.php - Meta-Data Yeti-Data (March 3, 2004 09:40 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/03/03/yetidata.php - McLuhan On a Dime (October 9, 2004 09:14 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/09/mcluhan.php - My Dentist Has an RSS Feed (March 29, 2005 07:49 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/03/29/dentist.php - My Left Big Toe is a Learning Object (January 23, 2004 02:15 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/01/23/toe.php - North of the Border……. (eh?) (July 9, 2004 11:36 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/07/09/eh.php - ObjectExegesisParanoia (June 4, 2004 02:01 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/06/04/definitions.php - Phil Phinds Phriendly Trackback (October 2, 2003 11:08 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/10/02/phil_phinds_phriendl.php - RSS Equalizer- Order Before Midnight Tonight and Get the Free Turnip Twaddler! (July 3, 2004 11:41 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/07/03/rss_ripoff.php - Repository of (Learning Object) Dreams (October 2, 2003 01:10 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/10/02/repository_of_learni.php - Sipping MERLOT’s RSS Feeds: Is this Boone’s Farm or Dom Perignon? (August 27, 2003 11:35 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2003/08/27/sipping_merlots_rss_.php - Sit. Down. Roll over. RollUp RSS Feeds (March 7, 2004 06:41 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/03/07/rollup.php - Sometimes You Spend So Much Time and Effort Thinking of a Cute or Clever Title for A Blog Post That You Completely Forget What You Were Going to Write About (October 21, 2004 06:23 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/21/title.php - Spam’s Quiet on the Western Front (October 3, 2004 07:43 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/03/quiet.php - Spam: The International Game of Intrigue and Mystery (October 3, 2004 08:11 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/03/spam_game.php - The Grand VideoCasting Future: Watching Me Say Ummm (February 24, 2005 07:05 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/02/24/videocast.php - The Serendipitic Web: Google Defines to Biff to A Fallen Tomahwak (March 25, 2004 10:36 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/03/25/biff.php - Thrice Warned: Piracy Shy? (January 9, 2005 03:12 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/09/warned.php - Try Some A9 Sauce On That Next Web Search (November 16, 2004 02:23 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/11/16/a9.php - What We’re Doing When We Tag (January 25, 2005 11:32 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/25/tag.php - What a Maroon (December 21, 2004 07:00 AM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/12/21/maroon.php - Yawncasting (December 19, 2004 10:42 PM)
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/12/19/yawn.php
Rock On! I’m moving to another label….