I'm in the midst of redesigning this site and have been using lots of tips (not to mention design ideas) from many of the bloggers that appear in the first round of Gurus vs. Bloggers at Design by Fire.
Herasimchuk pits many of the usability gurus I praise at work against many of the designers I follow from home. Check it out - you shouldn't be surprised who wins!
One last bit: since I've started using Bloglines to keep tabs on several friends' websites I thought this opinion on "syndication as misnomer" was interesting.
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