Pardon me while I pounce on a pet peeve: writers coming last on group blogs. Here on
E-Media Tidbits, where we have more than 20 contributors, items are formatted so that the name of the writer comes first, above the headline. The rationale is that much of the writing on this blog is personal ("I think that ..."), so it can be disconcerting for a reader to launch into an item and not know who's speaking.
My peeve is with group blogs that put the writer's name at the end of items. When a blog has a bunch of writers, I want to know up front whose voice I'm hearing -- not have to scroll down to figure it out. This is especially annoying with long group-blog posts.
You'll note this quirk on a number of otherwise-outstanding group blogs:
Morph (by the American Press Institute's Media Center),
Lost Remote, and
PaidContent.org. (The latter has only two principal writers.)
Obviously, for one-person blogs, this doesn't apply.
Steve, you rationale is right, and we have been thinking...
