Ronni, the author of Time Goes By, recently posted guidelines — or to use her term, Web best practices — that would enhance the blog reading experience. In the post she covers the following issues:

• text styling
• background color
• posting dates
• blogrolls
• link rot
• read more
• link blogs
• fair use and source your quotes

I agree with her on some of points but not all; I left a comment iterating my thoughts. For example, she observed it is difficult to read text that is italicized. I’ve used this style to denote material that I’m quoting; you shall see in future posts that such text will be posted with wider margins in a box with white background. On the other hand, I don’t mind blogs that have 100, 200, or 300 links; the blog author may not read them all, but as I see it, these links are offered like candy in a jar. That’s, in essence, what my blogroll is for, although I do try to read all of those blogs at least once a week. I recently subscribed to Bloglines so I can see which ones have been updated and not spend time chasing blogs that rarely have new content. To read her suggestions, please do read the post.