H1 in article page - site title or article title?

Question

Within an article-oriented page (such as a blog post), the

element (level 1 heading) is commonly used to markup either:

• the blog title (i.e

Answer 1

There is a W3C Quality Assurance tip about this topic:

<h1> is the HTML element for the first-level heading of a document:

• If the document is basically stand-alone, for example Things to See and Do in Geneva, the top-level heading is probably the same as the title.

• If it is part of a collection, for example a section on Dogs in a collection of pages about pets, then the top level heading should assume a certain amount of context; just write <h1>Dogs</h1> while the title should work in any context: Dogs - Your Guide to Pets.

Answer 2

On Wikipedia the h1-Tag contains the article-name and headings in the document start with h2. The name Wikipedia is part of the title-tag in the html-header. I also think that's the way to go. So for blogs I would do like Joel Spolsky in the examples you have given.

And I would always start with the highest level, so letting out h1 is in my opinion a bad option.