11th December 2003, mid-afternoon | Comments (22)
If you looked through my browser history you could be forgiven for thinking that little else exists on the Web except blogs: personal blogs, group blogs, photo blogs, audio blogs, poetry blogs, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
Bearing in mind their prolific and influential nature, I find it interesting that blogs seem to be spared the criticism the rest of the Web comes in for — in the wider world we seem to highlight flaws and failures in sites, whilst in the blogging world we only highlight success and innovation.
If a corporate or services site looked awful and was hard to navigate, we’d leave in a moment, but with blogs we seem content to see past the (often awful) designs, and to struggle with (often very) un-intuitive controls, just to get to the words of the author.
Hundreds of thousands of blogs break the ‘rules’ of web design all the time, and yet we don’t seem to care. Us. The people that shout about those design ideals on a daily basis. Admittedly I sometimes come across a site that tries my patience too far and I click away, but on the whole I’m willing to put up with a lot when on the trail of a good read.
I find that interesting, and I guess it goes to re-enforce that old adage, that content really is King.
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