I’ve been putting up at least one blog post a day for a pretty long time now. Sometimes, it is really easy. I write about many different things here, politics, technology, local stuff, media, law, personal stuff, and so on, so I usually have at least one thing to fall back on. In addition, there are often memes I can join in on, for example Wordless Wednesday, that help fill the page. Yet there are days, when there is nothing pressing to write about, when the only articles I’m working on are half formed, or when I’m just too run down to really give an article the necessary attention. Today feels like one of those days.

Outside, it is a grey, windy and rainy day. I’ve written a bit of political stuff recently, and need to balance that out. I do have some thoughts that I hope to draw together in that area. The same is the case with technology. Maybe I’ll rest and have some good thoughts later. Until then, I thought I would spend a little time exploring where I get some of my ideas for writing. It is said that to be a good writer, you need to read a lot. So, I am on numerous email lists, read lots of blog posts every day, and let things percolate.

So, as an example, today I stumbled across Theresa Komor’s blog post about location based searches. I’ve bookmarked it and may work it into some of my writing about the N900.

I also set up CTNewsWire as a mailing list where state and local agencies, elected officials, candidates and advocacy groups can send press releases and media advisories about important issues and events here in Connecticut. The group has been quite successful and is still growing. One interesting development has been emails on behalf of a person fined by the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board.

I also receive emails from various Federal agencies, including various emails about the U.S, State of Wisconsin, State of Illinois and State of Michigan filing an anti-trust complaint against Dean Foods Company. This goes back to how milk is distributed in the United States and is probably another good article to write when I have time.

Slowly, I’m starting to get more people interested in the Woodbridge Citizen, and with that, potentially more interesting articles to write.

On the blogging front, Adgitize has been down, so the blogs I’ve been visiting have been a bit more different. I’ve been spending more time using CMF Ads to visit sites. I also, note that a Pubmatic Report that CPM rates spiked in 2009 Q4.

So, today is a day for all these different ideas to simmer and we’ll see what comes up for my next blog post. If you’re a blogger, where do your ideas for blog posts come from?