‘Hey - more reasons not to try stuff on the web!’
Steve Safran August 27th, 2007
From Editor and Publisher, an article that certainly won’t help things. “Web Editors Reveal Online Flops and Failures,” while it certainly carries some good warnings about taking care when executing projects online, will likely reinforce the conservative attitudes too many people in the industry have toward the web. A list of 12 essentially negative lessons? I can come up with positives for many - if not most - of these. There are some decent points here - e.g. podcasts should be chosen carefully - but the LR Faithful know better than to fear things like open comments and reader reaction. What we need right now are more articles about successes.
3 Comments Add your own
1. Jay Small | August 27th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Right on. Besides, most bloggers just reposted the list without the narrative, making it yet another meaningless, overgeneralized “Top Tips” list.
Just because something fails for someone doesn’t mean that thing always fails for everyone. Replace “fails” with “succeeds” and that last sentence still works. Either way, trendy tips that read like absolute rules of operation don’t gibe with reality.
2. Howard Owens | August 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Some of the ideas were, “you’re stupid to have even tried that,” others were, “thanks for trying, but you did it wrong (and should have known better),” and the third class was, “thanks for trying,but if you keep trying, you’ll do better next time (fail fast and learn from your mistakes).”
Overall the story was lacked direction, purpose or perspective.
Trying things and making mistakes isn’t news.
3. Brink | August 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
“Trying things.” Yeah.
How about trying to give readers the most comprehensive, fact-based NEWS coverage (which is why they come to your site) instead of trying to pretend you’re a “social notworking” site?
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