Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis. Probloggers really have to work at it. I thought about all the different ways and angles a blogger can approach choosing posting topics. Here are 101 different ideas that I think are great to stimulate your mind and jumpstart your blogging.

[UPDATE: Make a Great Post from a category below and I'll link back to your post! See rules here.]

• Brainstorm by matching up your readers wants and needs using the Visitor Grid method of brainstorming.


• Write a post by examining the pros and cons of an issue.


• Write a tutorial.


• Do an interview with key people in your niche.


• Create a mock head-to-head competition like what Daniel did.


• Do a case study like what Read/Write Web did with the hot topics on Technorati 100.


• Take an alternate position.


• Write a long comment.


• Pick a topic by reading business book titles.


• Research a topic by doing research on Amazon.com.


• Drill down on a topic using Ask.com's search feature.


• Do a post that answers your readers' questions.


• Create a comprehensive list.


• Create flagship content.


• Interview controversial people in your niche.


• Post about current events in your niche.


• Invite your readers to submit articles.


• Instead of exchanging links, get together with other bloggers and review each others' blogs.


• Connect with bloggers around your same level and share ideas.


• Do a "speedlinking" post.
  
  


• Post about posts made by others in your My Blog Log community.


• Be opinionated in your post.


• Turn off the nofollow attribute to encourage comments.


• Do a "tag" post and have other bloggers who are tagged add to a list.


• Do an "IM" PPC campaign and then post about the results.


• Be a guest blogger and share ideas with new readers.


• Review your statistics to see what keywords referred your visitors to your site and post about those.


• Answer your readers' questions with more questions (i.e., have you thought about...?).


• Contrast two or more positions in a post.


• Make a post that solves a problem.


• Make a post that is inspirational.


• Make a satirical post.


• Write a series of posts.


• Post your research findings.


• Post an "advantages/disadvantages" post.


• Update an old post for new ideas/findings.


• Link ideas from different genres in your posts (e.g., Celebrities and the gadgets they own).


• Debunk a myth in your post.


• Make a post for beginners.


• Make a post for advanced readers.


• Invite experts to comment on your post.


• Ask your readers to Digg your best posts.


• Change up your posting style (e.g., tutorial, reviews, etc.).


• Write a funny post.


• Create a huge list of your best posts.


• Add to a list started by another blogger.


• Create a mission statement for your blog.


• Make a post simplifying a complex problem for your readers.


• Create a guide for your niche.


• Make a post turning a negative into a positive through humor ( e.g., tell a joke: "My parents tell me I'm autistic. I tell them they have an attitude problem.").


• Browse through a thesaurus and see if synonyms help spark ideas for your posts.


• Respond to criticism in a post (e.g., respond to the Wall Street Journal's criticism of bloggers).


• Write a post like you are telling a story.


• Spruce up your posts with pictures.


• Post about frequently asked questions in your niche.


• Pose a rhetorical question in your post.


• Post about what's popular and why it's beneficial ( e.g., "Twitter" for tech blogs).


• Pose a hypothesis and conclusion in your post.


• Support your post with related post links.


• Make a [blank] for dummies post.


• Post a picture that speaks a thousand words.


• Buy a how-to book from a bookstore and use some of the ideas from that book to generate ideas for posting (e.g., a book about Photoshop).


• Look at the archives of your niche competitors and see if any of their old posts can be expanded in an "update" post on your blog.


• Post with a personality (e.g., John Chow is evil).


• Write about how to do something more efficiently in your niche.


• Write about generally unknown secrets in your niche.


• Write about how to use a product in an unconventional way.


• Do a post transcribing live events (e.g., Macworld conference).


• Dissect an argument in a post.


• Make a post summarizing someone else's post.


• Make a post about how things have changed from the past.


• Make a post that expands on someone else's post.


• Create a post that incorporates the words, "desperate" and "futile".


• Make a post alleging a conspiracy (e.g., Is there a Digg Bury Brigade?).


• Make a post that encourages visitors to subscribe by offering a reward.


• Make a post that involves New York City, London, San Francisco or Sydney.


• Make a post that incorporates in the title the word "crossover".


• Create a post that utilizes a bar chart or pie chart.


• Create a post that has a cliff hanger to be answered in a later post.


• Make a post about pitfalls in your niche.


• Participate in a reciprocal guest blogging scheme where you blog on someone else's blog and that other person blogs on your blog.


• Do a paid posting targeted to your readers.


• Profile the competition in your niche.


• Post linkbait.


• Make a post about your fellow bloggers' top posts.


• Make a post about your most popular posts.


• Read some sports (or other genre) magazines and incorporate some of the writing styles in your posts.


• Write a post that pinpoints similarities and differences.


• Write a post giving a free recommendation.


• Write a post about something that is merely "good" but not "great".


• Write a post about a hack for your niche.


• Make a post that constructively criticizes someone else's post.


• Run a poll and post the results of that poll.


• Ask your loyal readers to email you links to their best resources and make a post about what you found.


• Write only about a particular theme for a week.


• Designate each day of the week as a theme day where you will always post about a particular topic on that day.


• Review your blog's (weekly, monthly, yearly) performance and post the results.


• Write an "attack" post by setting up an argument and then shooting it down.


• Combine some of your best posts from your archives into a new series.


• Hold a conference via blog posts.


• Make a "101 ideas" post.