How to Stand Out in a Sea of Fives

Darren Rowse of problogger.net just finished up another of his whiz-bang Group Writing projects.

The topic of the project was “Top 5″

I got the feeling that many of the entrants were students from the school of Brian

It was really interesting to see the different techniques that people used to stand out – after the jump I’ve listed all of the posts without using 5 or five in the title. Out of the almost 900 entries, only 77 people didn’t use “5″ in their titles.

Also for those that missed it, Darren let in on his amazing Chitika earnings – almost $250K!

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