As anyone who knows me knows, over the last few years my blogging has slowed down from roughly 10 posts a week to roughly 10 posts a year. Most of this is due to all of my free time being sucked up by b5media. And another chunk is because I do most of my communicating, ideas, networking on Twitter. But some of it is because I simply didn’t have any inspiration for blogging.

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A few weeks ago, over lunch with Jay Goldman he mentioned his 10×10 rule, which is basically: write out 10 ish big areas you’re interested in blogging about, and 10 ish ideas for each. That is your first 100 ish posts (though realistically you’ll have other ideas along the way), so it’s 2-4 months of blogging.

As you might expect, I decided to do the exercise just to see what happened. I’ve wanted to blog more for the last year, but lacked more than a post at a time. This would hopefully provide fodder for many posts over the coming months.

But I ran into a conundrum, because the topics were more diverse than I expected (at least the ones that excited me). Now the fitness/health stuff I’ve already decided to break off into a separate site, so it’s not on this list, but here’s what I’ve come up with:

  • Top entrepreneurs in canada interviews/profiles
  • Canadian company profiles
  • Running a blog network
  • Canadian VC firm profiles
  • Online advertising
  • Scaling a blog / media company
  • How to raise funding
  • Technical challenges of running a blog network / online media company
  • Ideas for thriving in a down  economy
  • Social media / new media tools we use at b5media
  • Interviews with bloggers I admire
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I’ve put these into 2 big buckets: b5media CEO blog, and more of a journalism/startup kind of blog. Part of this is a deep desire to see Canadians gain more profile. As a country, we suck at tooting our own horns, so I’d like to take time to toot our collective horns for us. Part of it is also looking to help folk who were like me 4 years ago: knowing there were ways to scale their company but having no idea how or who to talk to or what the options were or who the people in the industry even were.

So I’m looking for some feedback, on a few specific questions (but feel free to give feedback overall):

  1. Should I keep Ensight a personal blog?
  2. Should I retire Ensight, cause it has so much history and just start fresh?
  3. Should the CEO stuff live here, if I am keeping it a personal blog, or somewhere else?
  4. Should I split the “media” stuff off?
  5. Should I split the “startup” stuff off?
  6. Should I split the Canadian journalism/entrepreneur stuff off?
  7. Would splitting the Canadian stuff off seem weird, given TechVibes/StartupNorth are already doing some of this (to varying degrees)?

And finally: are there other topic areas you’d like to hear me blog about?

I’m opening this up mostly because I could be happy going multiple ways, but I am a big believer in splitting topics up so that you feel less like a monolithic subject staring you in the face when you want to blog.

So, thoughts, questions, comments, concerns?