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Recently I saw Chris Brogan’s blog post entitled 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write. It’s a big list of blog posts he’d like to read, with a real focus on Web 2.0 and releated technologies. In his introduction, he writes:

People often ask me how I come up with things to blog about, and I find the question strange, because my problem is the opposite. I have too much to blog about. Why? Because there’s a whole fast revolution rolling through, and right now - today - is our time to make it all work for us.

People ask me the same question occasionally, and I really don’t have a good answer. I don’t have Chris’s problem, but I never have to look very hard for something to write about.

When people ask about the topic of my blog, I sometimes say (with a little fay wave of my hand), “whatever strikes my fancy”. And that’s kind of true. When I started this blog, I made the mistake of writing about everything (excepting the particularly personal), so it’s turned out to be a kind of grab bag.

In any case, I liked Chris’s idea of a list of posts I’d like to read. However, I read enough about bloody Twitter and Flickr and the transformational power of Ajax.

Here are fifty posts I’d like to read that have nothing to do with technology. These aren’t very original. I’ve read many of them elsewhere, and written a few of them myself. Nonetheless, I think they’d make for interesting reading:

1. The Story of My Most Serious Injury
2. The Person I Admire Most
3. This Will Be My Epitaph
4. Why I Love My Hometown
5. Why I Hate My Hometown
6. Why I Was a Childhood Bully
7. How I Shop
8. How I Choose to Spend My Money
9. I Wish I Spent Less Money on This
10. Why I’m in My Current Job
11. My Ideal Job
12. My High School Clique
13. My Worst Subject in School
14. If I Had a Super Power
15. Here’s Where My Opinion Differs From the Majority
16. Why I Voted the Way I Did in the Last Election
17. Why I Don’t Vote
18. The Cause I Really Believe In
19. Why I Came To Religion
20. Why I Don’t Believe Anymore
21. Where I Find Spirituality
22. My First Kiss
23. My Worst Kiss
24. The First Time I Had My Heart Broken
25. Why I Travel
26. Why I Don’t Travel
27. My Philosophy on Raising Children
28. Why I Chose My University Degree
29. My Favourite Place on the Planet
30. My Greatest Sin Against the Environment
31. Why I Married My Spouse
32. My Most Hated Movie
33. The Book That Changed My Life
34. My Unexpected Mentor
35. I Couldn’t Live Without This Song
36. If I Hear This Song Again, Radio Personalities Will Suffer
37. I Have the Craziest Uncle Ever
38. Why I Believe in Luck
39. Why I Don’t Believe in Luck
40. How I Earned My Worst Karma
41. Where I Volunteer
42. Why I Don’t Volunteer
43. My Favourite Item of Clothing Growing Up
44. If This Celebrity Knocked On My Door, I’d Run Away With Them
45. Why I Care About Celebrities
46. Why I Love This Sport
47. Why I Hate Sports
48. When I’m at My Most Self-Indulgent
49. How To Be Selfless
50. My Childhood Dreams, and How I’ve Fulfilled Them
51. How I Learned Patience
52. How My Hard Work Paid Off
53. I’ve Never Been More Surprised in My Life
54. What Scares the Shit Out of Me
55. The Only Thing I Can Teach You