Recently a few people have asked me where do I come up with the topics for my blog posts, and also if I ever worry that I’ll run out of things to talk about. The answers to these questions (respectively) are nowhere in particular and no.
Allow me to elaborate.
The task of coming up with something to talk about in my (almost-daily) blog has so far been relatively simple. Seeing as how I only started the blog several weeks ago, there hasn’t been (as of yet) too much of a challenge coming up with things to say. My head is filled with lots and lots of strange pieces of information, any one of which could prove suitable for a blog topic if the need arose. For example, did you know that celery has negative calories? That is to say it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery then the celery has in it to begin with. There’s a blog topic right there. Or, did you know that the glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher? Another potential blog topic.
See how easy this is.
Sometimes I leave my apartment and stuff happens (sometimes I don’t even have to leave my apartment for stuff to happen, see yesterday’s post and the portion of Monday’s post about the suicidal cat). Whenever stuff does happen, once again I have more potential blog topics (for those of you wondering, the honking stopped after 14 minutes, and I have no idea, beyond my previously stated speculation, as to what caused the honking or how/why it eventually stopped).
In a pinch I can always post something that I have previously written that I think people might enjoy reading, or even something that they might not enjoy…either way it’s something to post.
Today (as you may have already noticed) I have decided to dedicate my blog post to answering the aforementioned questions of how I come up with topics for my blog and if I ever worry that I’ll run out of things to talk about. This in a sense was almost like a freebie, as the question itself generates the ability to provide not only an answer but an example as well.
As I’ve said (and as you are all well aware) this blog hasn’t been in existence for very long, so I don’t really consider all these posts to be that great an accomplishment. If say one year from now I’m still going steady, then perhaps I’ll have achieved something of note. However, I think the harder task is to keep all the posts interesting, so that my blog remains (hopefully) enjoyable to read throughout that time.
The other factor in the equation is the massive amounts of information I consume on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. As someone who spends the majority of their day on the computer, I have the ability to utilize the Internet to its fullest potential. By this I mean I can often take the time to research or discover uncommon facts or stories that most others never have the privilege of knowing, as opposed to just using it (the Internet) for email and porn (For example today I learned that a baby’s eyes do not produce tears until they are approximately 6-8 weeks old, and a man from England has recently changed his legal name to Zipardi Duda. The man, Anthony Duda, told local newspapers that he’d taken on the off-beat name to promote a charity for children in Tanzania that he had set up) Luckily, all of you know me (or you don’t know me, but nevertheless are here reading my blog), so you also get to reap the benefits of all my Internet use.
Also, I read a lot of magazines. Currently I have subscriptions to the following: Newsweek, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Premiere, and American Cinematographer. I also regularly read: The Believer, Men’s Health, Details, GQ, Esquire, The Progressive, Mental Floss, The Atlantic, The Economist, Mother Jones, Mental Floss, Skeptic, McSweeney’s, and The Weekly World News (though admittedly this last one is more for entertainment value as opposed to an information source, however last week’s edition has an article about cockfighting matches being held in hot air balloons to avoid U.S. legal jurisdiction that is both entertaining and informative).
I figure that all this Internet use and magazine consumption (along with my already stated accumulated knowledge of strange stuff, pieces of fiction, and the occasional venture outside my apartment) should allow me to keep up the blogging for the foreseeable future without worrying too much about coming up with something interesting to say.
Though I suppose only time will tell…
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