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If you ask then just don't.

Why do you expect that it would be interesting for others if you don't have something that's interesting for you to write about? Or something that you know in depth and you know most of the potential readers don't?

The right question would be something like "I have a lot of material about X, Y and Z but I can write only about one, let's vote."

And honestly, the first thing I thought reading your question was "somebody running a mechanical Turk web content farm asks for some new spamming ideas. Now he'll just collect the list of the answers here and give it to his slaves. On the second thought, he won't even bother making the list, he'll just send the link to the answers. The question was whole six words."



I view it as the OP doing market research before he invests a lot of time into building something people may or may not want.

If all you have to contribute is discouragement, why bother saying anything.


He already decided that he wants to "blog about tech, tell me what." The question I have for him is "why?"

Why blog? Why tech?

And as I've pointed to, we've already spent more time than he writing and thinking about it!

At least I won't anymore.

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I see you mention your blog and I've taken a look

http://www.angularonrails.com/

I think it's a good idea, writing about something others don't write enough. I like that you write about something you really know. I don't think you did "market research" but decided to write your own experiences instead. I wasn't able to see the list of the articles or the way to browse through them though. Is this intentional?


Wow that's a bit over the top. Maybe he just wants to produce content people actually want rather than posting things nobody cares about. Or do you think all tech blogs are "content farms for spamming ideas".

Hey OP. I like hearing about new technologies and seeing examples of implementation, getting a feel for where they actually fit in the landscape. What kind of tech are you looking at blogging about.




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