With the blogs of Dustin Cur­tis, Gre­gory Wood and Jason Santa Maria as exam­ples (each wor­thy of your time, by the way), Smash­ing Mag­a­zine looks at blogs designed like mag­a­zines,* dis­cussing what these ‘blogazines’ mean for the future of bor­ing blog posts.

Dustin Cur­tis had this to say on the draw­backs of design­ing like this on the web:

The biggest dis­ad­van­tage is that CSS and HTML are ter­ri­ble tech­nolo­gies that weren’t designed for page lay­out. They were designed for struc­tured con­tent pre­sen­ta­tion, like for a news­pa­per, where all the ele­ments through­out the web­site are the same and are re-used. But I’m try­ing to make a mag­a­zine, where the con­tent and pre­sen­ta­tion are inex­tri­ca­bly mixed and unique.

* A blog where each post is unique in terms of design and pre­sen­ta­tion, and where the con­tent and design are one and the same.

via @mocost