Comments on: Post Blog Usability

By: Sanish

Sanish — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:55:06 +0000

Blog explosion is a positive trend showing the interest of people ever ready to talk about and share what they have found interesting. The user friendly atmosphere makes people feel free to comment on and revisit the site and explore even more. And BLOGGING is defintly to stay for LONG.

By: Adam Moss

Adam Moss — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:57:08 +0000

Great post. I’m expecting more user activity and social bookmarking to be integrated into all blogs in the future so that there are more than just comments.

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:46:32 +0000

@ Vinny, I do agree that there is alot of crap out there. I think the biggest change is probabably the fact that users can update and manage content so easily on blogs that this exspectation ha filtered through to other types of website, gone are the days of html editing, whether this is a good thing or not I am not sure, In a way we are shooting ourselves in te foot.

By: Vince Cutting

Vince Cutting — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:20:15 +0000

I think part of the blog-explosion is due to ease uf use and simple setups. This means that today pretty much anyone can publish anything they like with little or no web design experience, whereas several years ago people either needed to learn HTML and update pages manually, or hire a web-designer.
Admitedlly most blogs do adhere to a modest simple layout with an emphasis on written content, which is a great thing, as most designers will agree “content is king”.
Whilst there are many well written and often interesting blogs out there today, there are however many not so good blogs with people simply writing mundane day by day diary entries for the world to see. Now its not really for me to say what is interesting to others and whats not, but with blogging bocoming so easy to do that anyone can set one up, there is a minefield of crap out there.
Still, back to the subject in hand. Blogs have certainly changed the web publishing landscape for the better, and for the forseeable future, although personally I feel the simple layouts and usability is more of a general web trend (evolution) than a trait directly descending from blogging – I think the 2 just happened to conincide at the same time.
One things for sure, blogging IS here to stay, especially with the likes of WordPress on the scene, and a wealth of people keen to publish there own opinions freely (be they interesting, mundane, or corporate ramblings).