On my way home from Washington D.C. Saturday night I ran into my friend Dan Miller. Dan and his wife Joanne were on their way back to Nashville as well and it turned out we were on the same flight. When we were boarding we quickly saw that things weren’t normal. There were hardly any people on the flight. The whole flight was five passengers and that’s just the kind of thing that Dan could talk about on his blog so once we were in the air we pulled out my trusty Flip Ultra video camera and recorded this video.

This whole thing got me thinking about how bloggers really can seize bloggable moments if they invest in a few gadgets and keep them handy at all times. Sometimes a written post isn’t an option or just isn’t the best medium so you should be prepared with at least one alternate media. In general, blogs that supplement with audio, video, and images are more interesting anyways, so thinking about blog posts beyond the written word is something you should consider anyway. Whether you’re likely to capture content on the fly or just want to mix up your media, here are three things you’ll want for seizing bloggable moments:

1. Video - Flip Video: I love my Flip Ultra. The new Flip Mino is pretty cool too. Either way you can catch video on the fly and upload it to YouTube in no time. You can even capture still pictures with the editing software that comes with the Flip camera, so if you just want a still image, take a few seconds of video and pull the still image from it next time you get to your computer.

2. Audio - Digital Recorder: I’m not good at capturing audio but for some people this just makes a lot of sense. There are cheap MP3 recorders you can find everywhere from Amazon.com to Walmart or you can step it up to something that’s better quality with something like the M-Audio MicroTrack or Samson Zoom H2. If you want to go really cheap (yet still effective) you can just sign up for Utterz and feed it into your blog. Even with Utterz you could do an interview as long as the other person doesn’t mind you handing your phone over to them.

3. Pictures - Digital Camera: I have an old Sony Cybershot but really any small digital camera will do. Heck, you can use your cell phone camera if you need to. Just remember there are times when you can take a picture and it will say everything you could want to write in an entire blog post.