This isn’t one of those shitty b-list top10 lists, it’s Jorn Barger’s tips for new bloggers, street smarts for crafting better link posts. Jorn Barger is the alpha twitch blogger, logging links since 1997¹ in his brief, thoughtful style. ²³

1. Jorn has also been cutting code since the 60s ↩
2. RobotWisdom is the first real blog I read regularly, which has greatly influenced my logging style ↩
3. Sadly, his main site still doesn’t have a RSS feed ↩

Joel Spolsky is a crotchety old man. Grumpy, but sure of one’s self is no replacement for humble and open-minded.