What makes a good blog?

One blog I find particularly interesting is Rebecca Sutherland's:
 http://rebeccasutherland.blogspot.co.uk/
I really like the clarity of her work - the blog clearly demonstrates her thought process behind her designs and allows us to appreciate them all the more when we see how much work went into them. Sutherland uses images to break up blocks of text which keeps the reader interested - a tactic magazines also use. In addition, the side bar of links to her different works if very useful, and something I will try and replicate.

Another blog I find interesting is Ed Stockham's:
http://watchingtraffic.wordpress.com/
This blog is mostly for Stockham's thoughts, but he posts his comical artwork regularly in addition. He also has a tumblr page (http://boxrocketcomics.tumblr.com/) more dedicated to his artwork, in the form of comics. To add to this, he has a YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/smilinglimpet) where he features his animations. All these pages are interlinked with hyperlinks between each page on all sites. Although I won't be creating multiple websites dedicated to this project, I could use hyperlinks to allow ease to skip through some work to jump to another section. Once I have uploaded all my work, I could go back through old posts (if this website lets me) and add in hyperlinks to connect an early piece of work to a later one. 

The blog http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ is hugely successful within the art blogging world, ranking number 1 Arts and Culture blog by creativetourist.com. This blog appears to be full of nothing but pictures at a glance, but on closer inspection the images contain hyperlinks to access the full post about the subject the image relates to. I really like this design as it keeps the main page clean and simple, but holds all the information it needs to. I may experiment with this website to see if I can replicate this within my own blog.

To conclude - What makes a good blog?

• easy to navigate and use
• clean and simple designs are the most effective 
• images can be used to break up text, but also to show what isn't read within the text itself