What Makes A Great Weblog? from UrbanMainframe.com

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1. skippy (7 comments.) says:

   11/24/2004 at 10:00 am

   I’ve not read the link, but I _think_ I know why you’re not detailing your response about “Accessibility and Standards compliance”. Nonetheless, it’s this sort of “preaching to the choir” that causes many non-bloggers to view blogging as nothing but an echo chamber, or a cloistered social clique.

   It’s similar in many ways to the way many OSS supporters refer glibly to RMS in conversation, assuming that everyone knows that RMS == Richard M Stallman.
2. Jonathan M. Hollin (1 comments.) says:

   11/24/2004 at 10:17 am

   “Jonathan claims that weblogs are not about Standards Compliance, Accessibility, Tables (or the lack thereof), design, posting frequency or features.”

   Just to put that in the right context: I was writing about what was important to me in choosing websites for my blogroll. “What Makes a Great Weblog?” was a personal and thus subjective post.

   “His examples of simply designed, good blogs says to me that he is comparing simplicity of aesthetics with complication in a design. A design can be as simple as just text on a page, and still be a very elegant and semantic page that is well designed.”

   Again I was stating that design was not important to me in choosing which blogs to read or bookmark or blogroll. I have created many websites, I build web applications for a living – I am well aware of the complexities involved.

   “Posting frequency is important.”

   Once again, it is not important to me with regards to my blogroll. My blogroll includes websites that haven’t been updated in months. However, I enjoy the content that their authors produce – I’m happy to wait for their next articles.

   “A blog is first and foremost a personal journal.”

   You are absolutely correct. I described my “Turn Offs” without taking into account the simple fact that my leanings are towards technical weblogs (unfortunately, I didn’t make that clear in my article). Therefore, when I visit one of my preferred journals hoping to learn about the latest programming technique, it’s frustrating if I have to wade through cat stories (etc.) If that’s the kind of post I want to read, then I’ll go away and find an appropriate weblog.

   “since he mentions baiting as one of his turn offs, I had to write a critique of his post”

   That’s cool. I appreciate your point of view. You are in good company, several others have pointed out the deficiencies in my article. So I have learned from the experience and I am grateful for that.

   Thanks for your feedback.