During the last several months I’ve been experimenting with what is called the “list post.”  For anyone who isn’t a blogger, a list post is one where you use both a number in the title and then you write the post around the ideas offered by that number.  The reason I got started was that one of my favorite bloggers is Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.  As a hugely successful blogger he reports one of the strategies behind his enormous growth was using the list blog post.  In fact, it is estimated by List.ly that 30% of all blog posts are lists.   So as an experiment I’ve been giving it a try and ten of the last eleven posts I have written have been in the form of a list.  So do I keep it up or let it go?  Here is my list of why I am both for an against list posts. [Read more…]