I'm a huge fan of Twitter Designer Paul Stamatiou's blog for both its content and design. It inspired me to make my own blog and guided a fair amount of my design.

The Photos Section in particular is really well done.

http://daneden.me/blog/ & http://www.minimallyminimal.com

Here are some that inspired my own blog design:

Trent Walton - http://trentwalton.com/

Mark Otto - http://markdotto.com/

Frank Chimero - http://frankchimero.com/blog/

Noah Stokes - http://esbueno.noahstokes.com/

Dan Cederholm - http://simplebits.com/

Joel Glovier - http://joelglovier.com/

http://usabilitypost.com/ is pretty great.

edit: also, http://nicolasgallagher.com/

Alex Cican is another great one — http://alexcican.com/blog/

http://blog.capwatkins.com/

Shameless self-recommending is here. Wish nobody dislike it. And sorry for missing my favorites due to not being satisfied by most blogs.

Beautiful layout for reading http://randsinrepose.com

You might like http://notes.minnix.me/

I love the blog design of Tobias Frere-Jones – http://www.frerejones.com/

Edit: nevermind

(is there no delete function for my comments?)

+1 Really like Mark Otto's blog.

Otherwise this one is pretty cool (although it's a corporate blog): http://journal.everest.com/archives/

Invision's blog is nice too: http://blog.invisionapp.com/

"blog" or "portfolio",Prefer pictures and words in the form of combination,The sidebar pop-up content,There is a lot more

http://www.sanghan.co/news/2013/09/24/news.htmlhttp://tomlrn.com/http://www.creativejournal.com

TemaIlya Birman

Brian Gardner's frequent blog redesigns are always an inspiration to me! http://briangardner.com/design-blog/

Helped me with my own too! http://ross.so