Idle talk is to be avoided; deceptive talk (lying) is prohibited. Having been writing blogs of rather informal character for a while, it would not be challenging for me to just "post something" everyday—to practice of "producing content" for the sake of content amounts to deciding on some schedule. Then, from that schedule, there are endless things to talk about, particularly if you are topically driven.

Let me give an example—suppose I started to write frequently on the topic of Spanish (or some other foreign language). I could document interesting new words I come across and provide short summaries of more extensive research I do into etymologies and all that.

This sort of blog is a kind of technical log (blog = web + log) and diary combination. It is a diary because it is written diariamente. ¹ The driver for the content of this type of diary is some work outside the log itself (e.g. typesetting some book, learning about some topic in order to do something). Words follow to be a useful reference of some time whether that is to review later to observe how progress has or has not been made or to refer to useful documented information—I might reproduce a tasty recipe in a blog, for instance.

Through an activity driven blog, you can make explicit what you do and (optionally) publish it for others to see if they so choose.

Such a blog isn't just a collection of info, but provides documentation of a journey. For example, in my experience learning languages, I've found out lots of stuff that didn't work. I've spent time doing silly things like learning alternative keyboard layouts. A log of such foolishness can potentially be helpful for someone who seeks to follow a similar path—I'm not trying to sell you products or anything and I don't claim "originality" to these ideas.

A technical blog on programing, wood working, etc. can similarly be informative. Actively working through problems and then posting insights into what sorts of design patterns have(n't) worked, whether the "next big thing" is just an old idea re-hashed, info on tools/hardware... ...all this sort of information can be useful to have and if you are looking at it anyways, I think writing a blog can be a good way to serve others by providing non-nonsense takes on things. However, it is essential that you work and not just write about stuff, because tools are tools and knowing the effectiveness of tools means you have to use them to do work.

Regarding Political Content

What is the work that goes into a political blog? To aggregate and analyze lots of information is an involved thing—to do this well, you can't just take news sites' word on "face value". You must famliarize yourself with the actors/parties involved, who is paying who, and so on and so forth. One might say, you have to become a "conspiracy theorist".

To think that most of news media is just a personal, technical log of events like the kind of (work) blogs I describe above is naivety—one musn't be lazy/idle!