The Other Blog is going well. This is my anonymous contribution to the 46.1 million offerings currently listed on Technorati, and contains all the slightly suspect content I’m too scared to post here under my own name. It’s a whole lot of fun - not giving a damn and never having to look over your shoulder.

My experiences out there in Anonymousville have had me thinking about ideas for unusual blogs. A few weeks back I stumbled across Captain Picard’s Journal, a fictional offering set in the Star Trek universe and written as a series of journal entries from the POV of various Star Trek characters. It’s an interesting idea, and with a Technorati rank of 5579, quite a successful one, though I have to say that the quality of the writing is a little on the weak side. Editing guys! Please!

But it got me thinking. Fictitious blogs make for an interesting writing exercise, and the scope is unlimited. How about a seemingly normal, everyday blog, but set ten or twenty years in the future? You could introduce one major event which changed the world - say a hard core terrorist cell of Scientologists set off a nuclear bomb in Manchester in 2010, and take it from there.

Or a contemporary blog written from the POV of a young student, set over the course of a year, but getting stranger and stranger as the weeks go by. A mystery with religious or cultish overtones perhaps - I might even find a use for those three years at university studying mediaeval history. Now that would be a first.

Books like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Adrian Mole would have made great blogs. But would anyone have known they were fiction?

The possibilities…