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Too Much Information - Busy Blogs June 2, 2006

Nick over at Performancing made the comment that he’d recently visited a site that had way too much information obscuring what he was really trying to find: a contact email for the author. He explained the features he found that really didn’t interest him.

It made think for a second and I realized that this blog you are reading is a prime example of busy-ness. I’ve used it as a showcase for so many blog features that it’s ended up as a dog’s breakfsat. In fact, while it is a showcase for various features, it’s a prime example of what not to do with your blog: overload and make it busy. Information design, as I’ve said before, is an art, and sometimes simplicity is all that is needed.

That said, I’m trashing a lot of the features here. In the future, if I talk about a feature you can stick into your blog, I’ll embed into the article rather than into my ridiculously long sidebar or page theme in general. So, by the time you read this, a lot of the crap in my sidebar will be gone.