360 Degree Success is a personal development blog written by David Richeson and Dario Salas Sommer. It covers a lot of interesting topics, but I found the posts on bottled water and why “doing everything right” doesn’t necessarily make you happy.
The main problem I have with 360 Degree Success is it doesn’t have any obvious disclosures. I’m thinking it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea for a personal development blog to have a simple “I am not responsible for your actions, content here may not be 100% correct for everyone, no warranty” type of disclosure to protect themselves from any possible issues that may arise in the future. While chances are no legal issues will pop up - it definitely isn’t a bad idea to be prepared in the current Internet environment.
I’m also quite happy to see Feedburner finally getting used, although I am a bit curious as to why they didn’t post the Feedburner URL on the “RSS Subscribers– Please resubscribe today” post. Looks like the feed autodiscovery also has to be updated to reflect the feed URL change.
Rating
My overall rating for 360 Degree Success is:
Content: 9/10 - Well written, fairly useful advice.
Design: 7/10 - Not a big fan of yellow, and some things could probably use better padding. For example, the footer of each post with the comments link can look funky if it wraps onto the next line.
Uniqueness: 8/10 - There’s a lot of unique content, but some of the posts are fairly similar to other posts I’ve read on different blogs.
Overall: 8/10 - A few little issues here and there, but for the most part I like it.
You can check out the blog here, and subscribe to it here.
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
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