Blogs need more navigation options
My backtrack blog reading makes me realize blogs need more navigation options. For one, all "big" content blogs should have a search engine. There's no excuse not to have one, with the many free spiders you can add to your site in a matter of minutes.

Then there's the way you navigate through time. The standard calendar view on Manila sites is cumbersome when you want to catch up with a blog, because you have to check every day. Similarly, the number of days that appear on the front page is set by the author (both with Blogger and Manila), while the reader might want to have more/less posts by page. I have a 19" screen set at 1600*1200 so I have real estate to spare. And I'd rather scroll than click, click, click. The scroll wheel on my Microsoft mouse doesn't even require me to move the hand to scroll.

Finally, some keywords assigned to posts allow readers to follow the conceptual trails (or threads, example added on 10/23/00) that the blog's writer has been creating.

04/15/01 update: for scrolling addicts, I should have mentioned QuickBrowse. More categorized blogs include the ones at O'Reilly, and user-centric pages at LiveJournal.