- Glenn Wolsey has written a good post for bloggers looking to buy a Mac where he looks at the type of Macs that bloggers are using and what software they get.
- More Minimal has a couple of good posts on making your blog more readable and minimalism in blogging
- Business 2.0 has an article this month on blogging for dollars. It’s a fairly standard ‘you can make money blogging’ piece with most of the usual players as well as featuring Michael Arrington and Federated Media very heavily.
- Search Engine Guide lists 10 factors to consider when going through a site redesign (some points are more relevant for blogs than others).
Great links — I got lost in More Minimal — I love that site. And I’ll be referring to the site redesign article when I get to work a little later. I’ve been needing to do something about our redirects and error pages and there explanation made perfect sense to me.
I hate having a miss-spelled word sitting there for everyone to see. Please forgive me — I’ll get some coffee before I type another word.
Great timing on the links Darren. I’ve been going through brainstorming sessions each night for about a week to come up with a site layout I really like for a re-design. The More Minimal links helped point out that I like my simple layouts better than I’d expected, which happens to be the exact opposite of the busy news-journal-like layout with busy sides that I chose to start my blog with.
@katiebird: I must still need coffee too, because I didn’t even notice your typo until you pointed it out. :)
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