Software revue is just as important as product revue...
A department store sees the need to change the way they represent their products to you from time to time, they study the shopping patterns of their customers and change their store layout accordingly, all to keep you there for longer and to make your visit as satisfying as possible. Why not follow the same sort of procedure when thinking about how to best display information to readers?

Blog Architecture has been on my mind a lot the last week and what really got me thinking was this Pearsonified post. But before I jump in and change the way our blog looks, according to my idea of blogging reading patterns, I would love some feedback on what you as a reader would like to experience.

A blog can be a gold mine of knowledge, but with one flaw, unlike any good encyclopaedia blogs lack a decent index. Ok to be fair you can use the search function, but what if you don't know what to search for, what if you just want to see the different areas covered by the blog, call it areas of expertise.
Gone are the days where blogs have a diary kind of identity, the future (in a highly competitive blog world) is representing information in such a way, that readers have more control over the information they want to read.
Don't make them page through 10 pages just to get to a post that has some interested to them, give them navigation, give them a view of what they can find.
Why lose a valuable post, just because it is a year old, and no one will page back that far, unless they know about it, or see it in some sort of an index?
Information does not belong in a hierarchy system, chronologically ordered, no, it should be a network accessed according to your needs.

I would love some feedback on the following areas:

1. Do you subscribe to RSS feeds? If yes, do you still visit the actual site? If yes, why?
2. Do you read blog posts from latest to oldest, irrelevant of the topic?
3. Do you look at the most recent lists, or most recent comments lists?
4. Do you use the search tool?
5. Would you like to view blog posts according to categories?
6. Are you interested in what we see as the most valuable posts?
7. Would you prefer to read blurbs or the full articles on the home page?
8. Would you like to rate posts and see a list of the most highly rated posts?
9. Can you determine from reading our home page, what our areas of expertise are?

Basically I want to know what YOU want so we can give it to you, simple as that.