February 21st, 2005
meta blogging
Now here’s something I think would be cool:
What if there were a database of blog post ideas? Any blogger could go to the database when the creativity fountain was getting dry, check certain options based on what kind of post he or she wanted to write (”serious,” “funny,” “about your pet”), click Submit, and get a list of possible post ideas returned.
Maybe it could even have a submissions request, so people could add post topics to the database.
If anyone knows how something like this could be implemented technologically, let me know! I’d never run out of ideas again!
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It would be pretty trivial to implement… just a small database, allow a one line topic submission, and a broad tag (serious, funny, etc.) or maybe a keyword field for searching, and viola!
If I weren’t responding to the idea on a break from my contracts class, I’d throw something together. Ah, say good-bye to “free time”.
I really like the idea. I find myself in the trap of not having anything good to discuss. Call it a blog rut if you will.
I think there is something like this targeted to the LiveJournal community. I’ll dig around.
Excellent, Smithers. My plan is working….the elves are doing all the work.
(No, just joshing—thanks, guys, for the info and the help! I think this could be a great tool for bloggers. Most of us just need a little germ of an idea to take off and running.)
There is a site that generates ideas of things to write about. I don’t remember the address, but I saw it at http://kmsqrd.squarespace.com/journey awhile back, and the ideas were pretty good. You don’t get to input a subject, but you just get some random topic or question. If you don’t like it you just click again for another. It’s name might have journaling or something in it. (Boy, I’m a lot of help.)