on blogging coherently and well

Now, perhaps I'm the last person (okay, 2nd to last person since I actually "have" a blog) to criticize blogs. However, in the case of people who want to build their blog readership and make their blog part of their online presence, the blog posts should actually be well-written... and coherent. I'm not going to point any fingers because I do like the people who inspired me to write this post, but I'm appending a list of some blogs which avoid most of the let-me-just-slap-this-together-no-one-will-care-because-it's-just-a-blog

I don't mean that their posts are too long, because sometimes the problem is that the post is too short. If you are comparing, say unicorns & rainbows, don't explain that they're different, expound on unicorns, and then forget to talk about rainbows. It's like flirting all night and then forgetting to get my number. Put paragraphs in to separate different ideas, even though your ideas might only be one or two sentences long.

Other times, the posts are too long. I suffer from this problem a lot. It's taken me far longer than planned to dash out my thoughts on this. Some posts meander in several directions before they finally die a slow death. Other times, it just needs a good editing to cut out the extraneous verbiage.

Some examples of well-written and well-edited blogs:
The Simple Dollar