What Makes A Great Weblog? from UrbanMainframe.com: Peoples’ perceptions of what makes a good weblog are very interesting to read especially if you disagree with some of them. Here Jonathan claims that weblogs are not about Standards Compliance, Accessibility, Tables (or the lack thereof), design, posting frequency or features. Contrary to his claims, I would say that all of the above are quite important though to a varying degree. 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. Tables are yucky unless their use is extremely well justified. Period. Posting frequency is important. A stale blog, is a slow blog which creates a snowball effect. You post less, less people visit your […]

Can there be any such thing without the fear of poison and/or interception from spammers? I fear not but would like to at least take a look at the possibility. A simple method of doing this would be to provide a feed of spam words from every blog. Provide a page inside your blogging tool that allows a user to add “Spam Word Sharing” sites and then update manually when needed. The recipient blog will grab the feed, check for time updated, and if new words are found, add them to its own list of words. The inherent problem of this distributed method is that spammers will be able to look at the list and then modify the information they use in their spams. The upside of this method is that spammers cannot POSSIBLY look at the spam words of each and every blog unless they write some sort of […]