I get asked all the time. Well no, not all the time, but sometimes, or at least once I recall anyway, being asked how I manage to keep a daily blog going. Now, as you can imagine, coming up with pithy, relevant, interesting and entertaining words every day can be a bit of a slog. It also does serious damage to my coffee and cigarette budget, so occasionally, it’s worth speeding up the process. How do I do that, I hear you ask?
Here they are, then.
10 Ways To Zip A Blog Post In Less Than 60 Seconds.
- Grab any video from YouTube. Doesn’t matter which one really as no one is going to watch it anyway.
- Post some family snaps. If you have iPhoto it should take less than 30 seconds. Try and use baby or puppy dog photos to attract attention.
- Copy a really old poem or three. Really, really old so you don’t get into copyright problems.
- Post some of your witty Twitter comments. (You can even get a widget to do this automatically for you.) So cool.
- Search your hard drive for recipes. There’s always a couple hiding away. (Vegetarian preferably so you have less chance of offending anyone at all.)
- Just put the word ‘Apple’ in your title and simply ‘iPad’ in your post and watch the search engines listing your blog in microseconds.
- Republish a previous post. (Make sure it’s at least 3 months old as some of your readers may have good memory.)
- Post a song! Well, be careful here as audio tracks could get you into copyright problems and anyway, they look boring. So go to rule 1 and get a YouTube video of your favourite song.
- Keep junk email. Make use of the pests by copying some half-interesting bit of text. (Perfectly safe as I don’t think spammers would copyright their crap?)
- Post an out of office message. (My favourite.)
So there you have it. Happy blogging!
Hi Derek. I am an occasional blogger. I can imagine that coming up with a new and interesting
topic every day would be difficult. However, you seem to pulling it off very nicely. I love your blog!
Thank you for the very informative tips!
I just may give some of them a try.
THIS I gotta see… I'm referring to the comment ahead of mine, of course. ;)
Love the YouTube suggestion. Why write words when pictures tell the story so well?
I popped over from W.M. Morrell's to say hello. What a great blog – love this post! :-)
I agree with kcsfann. I love your blog and you seem to be doing very well!
Well, I blog post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday…. so I have material to blog about!
Hey, is that a picture of you at the top? *LOL*
Good tips. Just decided to follow you, so you can expect to hear more from me. Gonna try that Junk Mail one. Wish I hadn't deleted them. Had a good one the other day )-:
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Thanks for all your comments. Seems lazy blogging is a popular idea! Thx. Derek
Just what i need, :).Thanks
Thanks Derek, this will come in handy since I have problems posting a couple times a week. Thanks.