I was checking recent tweets over at Twitter when I came across this post by Trula:

working on blogs: setting topics for rest of nov and will write rest of this week’s tonight

I tweeted back my interest in her method she replied:

@WillBrown: I find writing posts in advance helpful & timesaving. it’s a tip @problogger had on his blog a while back

Small world. I’ve been subscribed to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog for some time now, but due to the extraordinary amount of feeds I’m subscribed to, I haven’t read it recently. I now follow him on Twitter.

Darren’s, and Trula’s, idea of planning out blog posts weeks in advance has never crossed my mind. I think it is because blogging, to me, has always been so now and immediate. You’re supposed to write about things going on in the here and now. Not something you thought about three weeks prior.

Thinking about it now, it does make sense. Not every topic has to be timely. A good topic can be topical even though you may have thought about it weeks prior.

Thanks, Trula!

Oh…follow me on Twitter.

I came across a great search tool built specifically to search postings within Twitter call “Terraminds“. (hat tip to Shashi)

This is a great research tool if you’re looking for specific resources for a specific project. For example, I’m always on the lookout for poets to showcase on my poetry podcast “Cloudy Day Art“. I do a simple query for “poetry” (click to try it) and lo and behold I get tweets like (real finds):

I just saw your reply on Nov2. Thank you ^^; I used to do some slam poetry competitions so sometimes maybe it comes out.

i need some poetry that conveys the general message of ‘go aftwr what you want.’

So I came to Starhucks to handle a few clerical things…but it turns out hat I came on poetry night. Poetry night is just a subtle way to stand on a soapbox. Annoying!!!

It can also be a great tool to use to find Tweeters to follow who share your same interests. Looking for fellow kayakers to follow? Search for “going kayaking“. “58 finds in the last 2 months”. Cool.

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