I recently put out the question on Ask Metafilter to find out some minimalist link-blog type sites that have few frills, but maximize on efficiency of the message and linking without being particularly “busy” in style. I’ve started one myself with videoTHL.com and wanted to find others with which I could identify good or bad design traits with which I could improve or compete. From the answers and my own research, here is my Master List of minimalist blogs (non-tumblr, non-twitter) compiled so far — but please add your favorites in the comments, even if the blog is your own! (by “NPR-ish” I mean lazy-Sunday idle reading topics, newspaper-and-coffee subjects)
Wimp.com – Five weird/informative/fun videos per day, hosted onsite
Waxy.org Links – Randomly updated, but nerdy-interesting links (a personal fav)
videoTHL – 13x text links to YouTube videos, dailyish (mine)
Metafilter – dozens/daily, visitor-submitted interesting links
Trivium – Technical/nerdy, updated ~weekly
Memepool – Updated in spurts, link-heavy small paragraphs
Quickish – Sports article exerpts, handful/day
The Brief – Tech news, simple paragraph style with sources, 2-3/daily
TNR Reader – a daily handful of NPR-ish article links
Noted Without Comment – Image and embedded video, no text
Largehearted Boy – dozens/daily, NPR-ish but ad-heavy
Instapundit – dozens/daily, political text/links
Reality Carnival – dailyish, HTML frames design
The Browser – “Writing Worth Reading” NPR-ish, simple paragraph preview
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can you tell , if wimp.com its on wordpres , blogger, or 100% html and css, and where can i find some info on where to build a website like it.
It appears to be just HTML and CSS as far as I can tell, but presumably coded by a more visual program (instead of hand-coded, unless the coder were super snooty) because of the unnecessary tabbing in the source.