Today’s assignment is “take control of your title and tagline.” Mine perhaps needs some help.
My title is:
A Few Reasonable Words
And the tagline is: “One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a poem, see a fine picture, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.” — Goethe
With my usual tendency to over explain things, I see that I have used up the tagline space to gloss the quotation. Time to dump that (or do the explaining elsewhere). (Oops, already do.)
But, what to use as a tag instead? My blog is probably more often a Commonplace Book than anything else, also sort of a library reference desk display rack–things of (possibly infinitesimal) interest. “More information than you require” would work, but that has been taken by the droll John Hodgman.
Some bloggy riff on “Books you Don’t Need in Place You Can’t Find” might fit the bill (that’s the motto of the Montague (MA) Bookmill). “Bits and bites you don’t need on a blog you can’t find…”
I think I will go with that for now. The beauty of the interwebs means I can change it tomorrow, of course.
And for good measure, a few famous taglines from a previous content delivery medium, newspapers:
There’s another one I couldn’t find an image for, but I love: the San Francisco Examiner’s motto, “The Monarch of the Dailies” –the flagship paper of the monarch of the press lords, William Randolph Hearst.
A Few Reasonable Words 