Commentary on top 10 blog usability mistakes - prologue

When writing any blog about usability sooner or later you have to address the blog usability. Blogs as specific type of web medium should follow the same general web usability guidelines, like making the links obvious and using graphics for highlighting content and structure, not as decoration. Of course there are also some specific usability guidelines for blog usability but the maybe the most interesting one is by usability the advocate grand old man Jakob Nielsen himself. So the ten following posts will form an editorial commentary of the top 10 blog usability mistakes by Jakob Nielsen (2005):

1. No author biographies
2. No author photo
3. Nondescript posting titles
4. Links don't say where they go
5. Classic hits are buried
6. The calendar is the only navigation
7. Irregular publishing frequency
8. Mixing topics
9. Forgetting that you write for your future boss
10. Having a domain name owned by weblog service