Successful Blogs

I’m catching up with Jakob Nielsen’s :: ALERTBOX :: which, if you don’t subscribe, you need to.
Nielsen has been at this usability game for years now, and much of what he says makes sense. However, I find his scope sometimes a little narrow, and his opinions a little blinkered.
For instance, this latest alertbox Nielsen states [...]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist this.
I was looking through the excellent Top 10 best designed blogs this morning, and one of the comments suggested we looked at Thumblounge. So, of course, I did.
Only when I got there, I got this:

So I checked the SixApart status.
And I got this:

So, which is it? Available, or unavailable. And [...]

Earlier, Anil Dash from Movable Type commented on my Movable Type Running Scared post. I was going to reply in comment, but I had too much to say for myself (SHOCK!), so thought I’d make a blog post about it.
The “losing ground” assertion is based on comments made on several blogging forums i frequent, and [...]

We, like many of our UK friends, have unlimited broadband. I’ve been out of reach of this connection for the past few days, and I’ve used the time wisely to read up on developments in internet and online marketing technology. I’ve read newspapers, printed-out articles, and books. And, do you know, it’s actually quite an [...]

I, like you too, probably, have several blogs I read regularly. These tend to be blogs on blogging, in all its aspects. Of course, Darren Rouse at Problogger, Brian Clark at Copyblogger, and Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips are up there for me, and I’m sure you have your favourites too.
You can add to [...]

There’s a lot of blog bashing going on at the moment. From an article I read in the Observer last weekend ( Observer article ), I Googled a bit to find what it was all about.
Basically, this guy called Andrew Keen is saying that a lot of the Web 2.0 content we see nowadays (such [...]

Whenever I ask this question, I get the answer: “sure, of course design matters”, then usually I get a “check my blog / website to see!” And what I see usually makes a mockery of their initial statement.
Their design is poor. It is inflexible. It is packed full of “CLICK HERE”s and “FEED ME”s and [...]

We have recently had the results of the Bloggies 2007 - that world-wide competition for the best in weblogs. And, to be honest, I was a little surprised by the deisgn quality of some of the winning blogs.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m appreciative of the fact that they are high-traffic, highly successful weblogs with many [...]