Ten uncanny blog post ideas
Update: Please note! I now have a huge blog post ideas post that you should read, too!
Here’s another contribution to the blogosphere. I’ve come up with ten unusual (dare I say uncanny) blog post ideas for you to consider. Some of them are very challenging. I’d love to see you try them out. If you do, would you please link back to this post?
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy trying these.
1. Pretend the Internet is destroyed overnight. What do you do when you find out?
2. Review an unsung hero: someone in social media who consistently creates excellent work but seems to get very little recognition. Look at it as an opportunity to discover a hidden gem or a star-in-waiting.
3. Should blogging platforms be easier to set-up, use and maintain? What are the pros and cons of making them easier to use?
4. Describe a situation when a blog post or article that you wrote was COMPLETELY misinterpreted by almost everyone that read it. What would you do differently now if you had to rewrite it?
5. Do memes have any value beyond entertainment? List at least five benefits to the meme creator, the meme participants, and the meme readers.
6. Write a post on any topic, but don’t use any adverbs. Bonus points if you can also write the post without adjectives.
7. Write a blog post about honesty from the point of view of a fictional character. You can be for or against honesty.
8. Find at least three of your best comments that you left on other blogs. Use them to write your own blog post. Find a way to tie the three comments together. (you can find an example of this idea here)
9. Write a blog post backwards, in the style of the movie Memento. The scenes in Memento are shown in reverse chronological sequence, so, literally, the beginning of the movie was the last thing that happened.
10. Imagine that a brain-to-computer interface has been created. Instead of typing, clicking, or talking, you could just think and then your computer would do whatever you wanted to do. How would that feel? Would you want to work that way?
Good luck! By the way, here are 82 more blog ideas.
maxyRO:
Great ideas, especially #9 which I’m thinking of doing
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23 April 2008, 7:23 amembee:
#1 goes hand in hand with southpark’s no internet episode. The idea is very scary yet very intriguing.
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23 April 2008, 7:50 ambrainadmin:
@MaxyRO – good luck with #9!
@embee – #1 is a question that I ask a lot of people and their answers are always interesting!
23 April 2008, 8:04 amNick James:
Cheers Mark, that should keep my head above water for the next 10 weeks
Actually, number 1 is a post I wrote a while back, but like many others has been left forgotten in an state of half-completion on the server. Maybe one day.
Great ideas, mate.
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23 April 2008, 9:44 ambrainadmin:
@Nick – thanks! Maybe this will encourage you to finish Post #1!
23 April 2008, 9:58 amMimzie:
Awesome ideas! I’m totally using the first one.
23 April 2008, 10:45 ambrainadmin:
@Mimzie – rock on!
23 April 2008, 12:47 pmsammysunshine:
Excellent, as always, Mark…
This should keep us going for awhile! Cheers!
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23 April 2008, 1:01 pmPaul Roe:
On #10: it may disorient at first, but would be ultra-cool and efficient in no time at all.
On #6: hmmm…this is tough. I am one of many, I am sure, who lace their writings with adjectives. They become part of the content itself, a part of the framework.
But, as Frost, Stevens and Wilbur exemplify, beautiful, colorful, even trippy writing can be made with few or no adjectives/adverbs:
‘The air is awash with angels’- Richard Wilbur describing a scene where he is watching people do laundry.
‘He gives his harness bells a shake/ To ask if there is some mistake’: most know this Frost classic.
Some good ideas here. :O)
23 April 2008, 1:02 pmbrainadmin:
@sammy_sunshine – get ‘er done, then!
@paul – I like Frost. As for #10, I can see where tech might eventually lead us there…
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