The Secret to Original Blog Content: Hockey
It certainly wasn’t the goal but I stirred up a hornet’s nest yesterday with a post entitled “Why Original Blog Thought is so Difficult”.
Just a few more thoughts - with no intention to poke the nest again - in light of a lot of comments and blog posts.
1. It’s not that there’s a lack of original thought but it’s a challenge to generate insightful posts day in day out - just like it’s a challenge writing a great newspaper column every day.
2. Techmeme is a wonderful vehicle to highlight thoughts, ideas, trends and news. Sure, it creates bandwagons but it’s also fertile ground for ideas.
3. If you really want to know the secret to create blog posts with original thoughts, here it is: getting up 6 a.m. every Sunday during the dead of winter, and then drive for 15 minutes so you can play pick-up hockey for an hour or so. Then, drive home and write a blog post while drinking two or three cups of coffee (usually three) while everyone in the house is still asleep. Personally, it’s a formula that more often than not, works well…unless you don’t play hockey.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
What are your thoughts on idlehandsbreedkaos.blogspot.com?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Any blog that involves hockey is alright in my books.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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April 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Paying attention to Minnesota’s electronics recycling law might be worth the effort.
Minnesota essentially requires manufacturers to buy back electronics equal to what they sell in video displays, by weight. The net effect here is that electronics recycling is now essentially free to households. You just need to find a recycleor who is part of the manufacturers buyback programs.