Tips or mistakes: what’s the best way to learn?

Posted on | July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

The web is bursting with tips for doing things well, along with lists of things you shouldn’t do. Doesn’t it make your head spin? How do we keep up?

Let’s take a couple of examples from my other blogs. Which do you find more useful?

1. Top Ten Blog Tips – a content-rich site with a large back catalogue of tips, but with a fair degree of crossover, a lack of new material, a fairly dry tone and a very rigid format (i.e. lists of 10 items per post). It works – but it’s very limiting. It does have a lot of decent posts though.

2. The Blog Cop – it’s both blunt and sharp at the same time. (I wonder how opposites can end up meaning roughly the same thing?) It hits a note with many, but is perhaps too unconstructive for some. However, look beneath the aggressive exterior, and you’ll find a blog that lists plenty of things you shouldn’t do with your blog.

This isn’t simply a case of choosing which blog you prefer. I’m curious to know if you prefer positive post – things you should do, or negative posts – things to avoid.

What do you think?

Category: Web advice

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2 Responses to “Tips or mistakes: what’s the best way to learn?”

  1. Kirsten
    July 13th, 2010 @ 10:25 pm

    I like both. I think that Blog Cop can be helpful – if you link to a Top Ten post on how to fix whatever the complaint is.

  2. Metallman
    July 27th, 2010 @ 5:50 pm

    Hey there,

    Both should go hand in hand but I believe that the lesson stays home when you learn by mistakes. You take in the tips from from friends (or sites) and then it’s trial and error to see which best suits your style. Later!

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