The Mechanics of Blogging About Illness: An Update
This is part one of my post for Invisible Illness Awareness Week . It's an update to the series of blog posts I did for National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week in 2007. The three posts that I wrote in 2007 are all still pretty pertinent to the topic, but as I mentioned in my last blog post (links to the three 2007 posts are there), there's a lot more being written on blogging about illness now than there was three years ago. So I figured an update was in order. Plus Lisa Copen, founder of II Week, suggested it as a topic. Part 1 of the 2007 series of posts was also about the mechanics of blogging. In 2007 I referred to Jakob Nielsen's Blog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. I still think it's an excellent resource, with one argument about item #10, "Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service." Nielsen says: "Having a weblog address ending in blogspot.com, typepad.com, etc. will soon be the equiva...