Comments on: How to Blog on Slow News Days

By: AListReview

AListReview — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:11:48 +0000

How To Find Inspiration on a Slow News Day…

What do you blog about on a slow news day? Andy Merrett (via Problogger)came up with five ideas, each just OK, but not particularly inspirational: Do Nothing Post opinion / forum / consumer views Stray from your niche Revisit old……

By: Steven Creek

Steven Creek — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:30:04 +0000

I have a few slow days because my niche is seasonal. It starts to slow down during this time period so this article was great. I need to try something a little different to get me through the slow times.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:35:56 +0000

Like the idea RinzeWind, however it’s still not always that simple. I wish it were. I think #2 in my list covers this to some extent.

By: RinzeWind

RinzeWind — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:20:21 +0000

There’s no such a thing as a “slow news day.” Get your digital camera, hit the street… get the news yourself. Prove that “grassroots journalism” is something more than a few words written somewhere.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:05:32 +0000

Nice article, I used to following #1 until today. But I feel I should follow #5 and #2.

“Most Borring Day to Blog is Sunday”

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:47:30 +0000

Last week was rather slow, so on Wednesday I published something which was slightly outside my normal topic, and on Thursday I followed it up. I would have published them anyway, since I found them interesting, and they are somewhat related to my blog's topic. On Thursday night, both posts were published to slashdot.org. I spent the next two hours getting the machine, which was new and hadn't been performance-tuned, to behave and handle all the traffic. Good thing, too; on Friday I made it onto reddit.com, and on Saturday onto the front page of digg.com AND del.icio.us/popular, where traffic seriously spiked again. This time the server held up well, thanks to my preparations. From Thursday night to now, I got at least 120,000 unique visitors and possibly more, made over $200 in AdSense, and picked up a thousand new feed subscribers. On Friday night, I wrote up a brief look at what I did to get the server to stand up to the oncoming hordes of barbarians, which I hope will be useful to anybody wanting to get 100,000 people reading their blog on a "slow news day."