One nice thing I've seen is separating out footnotes (additional comments) from references (citations/links to external contents). It's probably not applicable

One nice thing I've seen is separating out footnotes (additional comments) from references (citations/links to external contents). It's probably not applicable to all blogs, but I like it in Citation Needed, Molly White's blog/newsletter; see https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/ https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/ as an example.