Patrick of Yelladog celebrated his third year of blogging with a rambling post  describing some of the things he's learned.

Most of those things have to do with what he calls the "Lefty Blogosphere," liberals who blog about politics, and some of the differences he has seen between what they do and what their conservative counterparts do.

But other lessons were more universal:

1. trolls suck. I think trolls have dragged down several blogs, just by making them less pleasant places to go. The toll trolls take on the blogger can be a real drag, too. You have to have a pretty thick skin to endure being called an idiot over and over and over, even when you know you're right.
2. taking weekends off just kills your hits count. On the other hand, blogging on the weekend? It's worth it for me to have a day or two that I don't spend pasted to the machine.
3. Men who write "Where are all the female bloggers?" posts are fucking idiots. That's like announcing you can't find your toes. Dude. Just look around. Sheesh.
4. Proof-reading? Add that to my list of "things to do."

Can we add one lesson, or at least a suggestion? White text on a black background is very hard to read. Firefox users can simply expand the text size until it's how they like it, thanks to your design, but Explorer users will find this difficult.