Research - (IV) A good blog

D. Keith Robinson is a Web designer and developer in Seattle, Washington, he offers, here, a list of what he thinks makes a successful blog. He states;

"I decided to sit down and think about what I felt made a blog (or blogger) successful. It was a bit of a challenge because I'm not sure how to define success in terms of my own blog. I started it out as simply a place to work on my writing and my original definition of what success would have been has changed greatly in the last year or so. I've got readers now! Y'all have made it much more complicated - but I love you for it. I really owe it to the people who visit this site, you've made it much more than I ever planned. More work, more spam, more stress…aha…just kidding."

In the spirit of dialog and exchange with his community he adds ;

"I thought about the blogs that I like to read the most and other blogs that I feel are successful. Here’s what I came up with. Depending on your views of what is successful and what you like in a blog you may disagree. If so, feel free to add a comment telling us what you think makes a successful blog."

Because of the high number of readers to his blog, it has become more complicated but his opinion carries agreat deal of weight. People want to emulate his success. The 48 comments he received on this post are largely from people thanking him for the advice. Had he not such a great readership then his ideas on what makes a good blog would not a) reach anyone or b) be as creditable.
Discussion boards are full of various opinions (and all blogs generally are is an individual expressing their opinion and linking to those for their reinforcement of this opinion) on this subject but D. Keith Robinson's list seems to cover most of the criterion raised in any other search for what makes a good blog. It is subjective, your opinion on the opinions expressed, but in general terms a good blog will eventually be linked to (the bloggers gift of acceptance).