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Weblog Proposals

I may be in the market soon for a new Weblog (an additional one, not to replace Blurried Musings), and towards figuring a nice blog project to take up, I scouted out some of the various categories of online journals which exist. I lack sufficient desire for a vertically scrolling log of my day — I don’t even keep a normal paper and pen diary, and am not attracted to the idea a publicly bared version. As for news and opinion link journals, there are quite enough floating about in the electronic pool; I see no need to throw in another inner tube. And though I have a lot of interests, I’m not keen to manage a special topic or knowledge blog. It’s enough work just trying to think of things to post here.

As I was left empty-handed in my investigations, I thought up some possible matters of subject that may be viable as fodder for a Weblog. Try not to assume you’ll see me publish any of these — I’m just brainstorming. And if you find a topic worth pinching, then have at it. But do give a shout out when it’s up and running.

Stalker Weblog

Don’t mean to sound ominous, but couldn’t think of a better name. A Stalker Weblog would encompass a constant reference and referral to someone else’s blog. When a post shows on theirs, I post right after, commenting on what they wrote. They see a movie and post a review, I review their impressions. They provide a link, I link to that section. I guess it would take a deep, abiding fascination in the Weblog or its author to keep this going. Or just an unsound mind. It could also freak out the individual or group behind the blog being monitored, once it’s known. Something tells me getting an OK from them first is a smart move, but that would kind of ruin the fun for me.

Out the Window Weblog

I find this a great Weblog concept. Think of it as the blogging equivalent of a Web cam: I look out the window, and post what I see. I live in a downtown environment, so I’d hardly be starved for activities going on past my windows, and never at a loss for something to post. I might even dig into a readership niche only tapped by your standard type of online diary: the voyeur. The only issue arising from this I can see is how I’d risk leaving an impression of being a shut-in, or in serious need of a life.

Plagiarism Weblog

The name should say it all: I go out on the Net, find absorbing entries in other blogs, and borrow them. This one is similar to “Out the Window”, in how it’s a desperate attempt to avoid writer’s block. In fact, it misses on all the problems of writing in one fell swoop. If I’m smart about it, I’d bookmark a bevy of regularly updated but obscure blogs, unknown to any search engine. Not as hard to collect as one might think. Even so, all that extraneous digging through Weblogs for a usable tidbit seems like work, and that’s an activity I’d be trying to avoid with a racket like this.

Meta-Weblog

This would be a blog that refers only to itself and the little problems of writing an online journal… On second thought, most of them already do this. Forget it.