What follows is my general daily blogging routine. It may vary slightly from day-to-day, but will give you a rough idea of how my day structures.

• 6am – 6.30am: Get up, wash, dress.
• 6.30am: Get coffee brewing. Wake Apple Powerbook (unless it’s been helping out on the World Community Grid overnight.
• 6.35am: Load up important bookmarked web pages in various Firefox wiindows (eg Bloglines, news feed sites, press release sites, company sites.
• 6.40am – 7.30am: Look for any overnight breaking / urgent news in any of my niches, and either write a piece for publication immediately, or make note to start with these articles.
• 7.30am – 8.30am: Work through email newsletters, Bloglines, web sites. At this time, most news will be late US, Far East and Australasian. Open interesting articles in tabs, make written note of subjects to cover (particularly on Shiny blogs)
• 8.30am: Take some breakfast. Any morning chores – goodbye to my wife leaving for work.
• 8.45am onwards: General blogging time, usually starting with work on HDTV, non-gadget stories on Tech Digest.

  During this time, work includes:
  * Dealing with ‘urgent’ emails from Shiny, breakers from PR agencies.
  * Researching longer feature pieces; linking together multiple news stories into one article.
  * Following up PR contacts for additional information, photos, review items, etc.
  * Keeping eye on updating websites (Bloglines, news feeds) for anything breaking.

• 1pm-1.30pm: Lunch, watch news, any essential household chores
• 1.30pm onwards: General blogging time, continuing HDTV, general coverage of Tech Digest.
• 5.30pm-6pm: My wife returns from work. Generally down tools, prepare meal, have family time.
• 8.30pm: Sometimes check in to see if anything needs reporting, deal with spam, check statistics, general housekeeping. Tend to take laptop from office to living area.
• 10pm-11pm: Scan late UK/mid-evening US/early eastern articles, make note of anything to blog first thing next day – maybe write an article or do any catch-up or longer term work.
• 11.30pm: Bed.

These are approximate times that tend to shift about depending on how well the blogging is going and what other things are happening.

I generally don’t blog on weekends. Before I was a full-time blogger, I did, but then I was only blogging 2-3 hours on a weekday. Now, weekends stay pretty much work-free. I’ll still check email from time to time and take a general look at what’s happening in my niches.