This depends on what type of blog you are trying to write. If you are trying to write a blog that comes close to news releases, then I suspect this is good adv

This depends on what type of blog you are trying to write. If you are trying to write a blog that comes close to news releases, then I suspect this is good advice (though #6 is situational), but I have never tried that type of thing. Most blogs are really more like exposed journals that are only interesting to people that already know the writer well (facebook/myspace has started to, but not completely, supplanted this type of blog). For all of these, this advice would be inappropriate. Most interesting blogs fall in between. ArsTechnica for instance calls itself a blog officially, but it has strong elements of reporting in it. In this type of blog, the readers often want and expect some editorializing and some personal anecdotes along with the news and research. For this type of blog, #3 and #4 are absolutely vital, but the rest are probably inappropriate. Different types of blogs fall at different points between the news paradigm and personal journal paradigm and will therefore have different approaches. I suspect #3 at least could improve most blogs out there.