One of the fastest ways you can generate content for your blog is by reading a few articles related to your blogs topic. Blogs are fast becomming peoples choices to recieve their news.
Would you rather hit up a newspaper.com where writers seem so distant and chances are you would try and contact them or would you rather head over to some Average Joe, check out his or her blog posts for the day and see 3 or 4 articles reviewing your topic of chioce.
People dig that way of writing and you shouldn’t be afraid of doing it.
One of the best ways that I keep track of many topics and many articles is by using my flock rss wonder machine as well as the flock “blog this” option. You don’t have to use these (although if you’re a part-time blogger I suggest it) but you should get yourself a RSS agregator. Bloglines, Yahoo, Google, Rojo, NewsGator, there are a ton of them out there and you should try and get one asap.
Once you have one, organize your feeds if you have multiple topics you write about, and begin filling it with news sources you dig and blogs you dig. Most news sources online have these and you can easily add them to your aggregator.
Then all you have to do is Read Blog and read some more. But keep them simple and review like. Read a story, link and review. Write 3 or 4 sentences, relate it and link it to some of your content and build your web of goodness.
