Michael ([info]raccaldin36) wrote,
@ 2007-04-10 03:48:00
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20 Usability Tips for your Blog
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/09/twenty-usability-tips-for-your-blog-%E2%80%94-condensed-from-dozens-of-bloggers-experiences/

Good stuff.

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[info]queenpam
2007-04-10 07:35 pm UTC (link)
I am snarfing this for the blog I am building. Thanks for posting it :)

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[info]the_sinistral
2007-04-10 08:56 pm UTC (link)
Interesting post. Many of the author's points are good, but at least as many are biased in presuming a specific type of setting and audience. This strikes me as a primer for corporate-style blogging, not blogging in general. Between the purely personal journals (like mine) and the strictly business consumer blogs (like where I go when I want to read a review on computer hardware), are all the blogs that I find interesting and return to on a regular basis.

This person's list isn't really about writing a great blog. It's about treating the blog itself as a commodity and the audience as a customer base. It's like McDonald's: "Get 'em in, get 'em out, get 'em back tomorrow." That's a business model, not a philosophy. I see a lot of suggestions in the article that will help someone get a foot in the door of pop culture, but relatively little of the human truths that are common to the great blogs, from Daily Kos to Penny Arcade.

All in all, the article leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth. I don't think I'd be particularly interested in regularly reading such a corporatized blog.

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