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Sadje’s Sunday Poser — Favorite Topic

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For today’s Sunday Poser, Sadje wants to know…

One way to answer this question is to show my tag cloud, where the size of the tag indicates how often that tag was used in my posts.

Of course, the largest tag is #FOWC, my Fandango’s One-Word Challenge, which I’ve been posting daily since June 2018. Some of the other “larger” tags belong to other daily prompts that, up until I busted my hip two months ago, I was responding to almost daily.

You might also notice the rather large tag, “Donald Trump.” That’s because that asshole took up a lot of my headspace in the first four years of this blog.

Another way of identifying my favorite topics to write about is to look at my categories, or what I list as “Topics of Interest” on my side panel. Here are my top six:

  1. Flash Fiction (2,791 posts)
  2. Life (2,047 posts)
  3. Politics (871 posts)
  4. Blogging (780 posts)
  5. Humor (528 posts)
  6. Music (401 posts)

Bear in mind that some posts might have two categories, like “Life” and “Humor.” But based upon this list, it seems that I do a lot of flash fiction, and write a lot about life, politics, and blogging.

Did I answer Sadje’s Sunday Poser question to your satisfaction?

Let’s Play Tag

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In his latest 24 Hour Blog Question, Rory wants to know…

Do you use Tags on your blog posts, and do you find them a practical resource for you or your readers?

Yes, I use tags on my posts, but more for myself than for others. I use tags to search my posts to see if I’ve previously posted using specific words or names. For example, in Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday prompts, I always tag the post with the artist’s name so that I can search my old posts to see if I previously used any songs by that artist. Or if I want to know if I’ve recently posted about a particular topic in the news (e.g., abortions, mass shootings), I’ll search for my posts with relevant tags).

It’s also interesting to see the tag cloud associated with my blog.

Do you think your readership takes any notice of the Tags you have added to your published content?

That’s a good question. For those of my readers who are reading this post, do you take any notice of the tags on my posts? Let me know in the comments.

If you are a regular ‘user’ of Tags, do you randomly add them or very specifically optimise their use with your content?

Why would anyone just randomly add tags to their posts? My tags are specific to the content of each post. They’re not to “optimize” anything. Just to remind myself the key items the post covers.

A Treasure Trove

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“Look at this place,” Beth observed. “It looks more like a museum display than a working lawyer’s office.”

“I know,” Dwight agreed. “That old typewriter, an ancient telephone. There’s a fax machine in the corner. It’s all so archaic.”

“True, but we have to press on,” Beth said. “We need to put tags on everything in grandad’s office before the appraiser gets here.”

“This is a waste of time,” Dwight said. “These relics are probably worthless. We should just haul all this crap over to the Goodwill store.”

“We may end up taking it all there,” Beth said, “But we need to get it all appraised, even if it’s just to write it off on taxes later.”

The doorbell rang and Dwight went to answer it. The appraiser, a slight man wearing a three piece suit and round, wire-rimmed glasses and who introduced himself to Dwight as Ronald Plotnik, handed Dwight his business card. Dwight thought the guy looked as archaic as all of the junk in his late grandfather’s office.

After Dwight showed Plotnik to the room, the appraiser looked around and asked Dwight and Beth to excuse him while he took an inventory. “It will take about an hour.”

After 90 minutes, Beth and Dwight knocked at the office door. “Are you almost finished, Mr Plotnik,” Beth asked.

“Yes, yes,” Plotnik responded. “An incredible collection. It’s like stepping off of a time machine into an almost forgotten era.”

“Right,” Dwight said. “But let’s cut to the chase. What’s all this crap worth?”

Plotnik opened up his iPad, looked over his inventory notes, and said, “Item by item you might be able to get fifty for it, but I’ll give you forty-five for the whole lot

“Forty-five bucks?” Dwight said, disappointed. “I thought we could get at least a hundred dollars.”

“Well,” Beth to Dwight. “It will save us from lugging it all to the Goodwill store.” Then turning to Plotnik she said, “You will haul it all away, won’t you?”

“Of course,” Plotnik responded. “But I think there’s a misunderstanding. I was talking about forty-five thousand dollars. This room is a virtual treasure trove of relics from a past age.”

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “archaic.”