Tom of I’d Rather Be Writ­ing—the ‘tech­ni­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion’ blog—has just written-up twenty usabil­ity tips for your blog.

I’ve been doing research on what dis­tin­guishes good blogs from poor ones, espe­cially by read­ing “lessons learned” posts by blog­gers. I’ve come up with 20 prin­ci­ples I think are worthwhile.

  • Encour­age comments
  • Include an About page
  • Keep posts short and to the point
  • Link abun­dantly
  • Include a list of related posts beneath each post

The Resources sec­tion towards the end of the post links to a wealth of fur­ther infor­ma­tion. Read­ing this, I was put in mind of Seth Godin’s recent call for web podi­a­trists.