The Letter - blogs

Good blogs...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:41:21 +0000

What Makes for a Good Blog? Merlin Mann shares his thoughts:

Good blogs have a voice
Good blogs reflect focused obsessions
Good blogs are the product of "Attention times Interest."
Good blog posts are made of paragraphs
Good "non-post" blogs have style and curation
Good blogs are weird
Good blogs make you want to start your own blog
Good blogs try
Good blogs know when to break their own rules

The Daily Nice

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:02:19 +0000

The Daily Nice. A nice photograph from Jason Evans every day. No archive though... a mistake?

Mephisto

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:23:45 +0000

Mephisto is a publishing tool which I've been working with on a recent project and I have to say I like it a lot. It's run on Ruby but in terms of flexibility you can pretty much build a whole site knowing just HTML and CSS. Slick and powerful.

Cover It Live

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:46:45 +0000

Cover It Live is software to enable live blogging with ease. Nice visual design.

4 Ways to get banned from the Technorati Top 100

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:07:46 +0000

Four blogs that have been banned from the Technorati Top 100.