Astonishingly, the best way to learn blogging isn’t by reading a blog. Why? Because topics need to be presented in order from beginner/simple to advanced/complex, and that’s not how blogs work. Also, learning requires more of a time investment than your average 500-word blog post. Real learning takes more concentration. And the best learning is live and interactive.
As a successful blogger and teacher, I’m well-qualified to judge these matters. Live training is the best experience for most people by far: you’re engaged completely in the moment, your questions can be answered, and the other participants add to the experience with their own questions. It is a an experience of heightened awareness that you don’t get when you’re simply reading something passively consuming some other media (yes, we all have our primary learning modality, but even so the primacy of “live” tends to cut through that).
That is why I have added live webinars and teleclasses to the mix here at Remarkablogger, and plan to spend 2009 really building out this aspect of what I do here. I have already done several of these events, and all of them have been terrifically successful, so I’m encouraged to continue.
In the holiday busyness, you may have missed my announcement of a live webinar this afternoon. It’s really going to be a good one: “Blogging for Smart Beginners.” Learn more and register for it here.
http://remarkablogger.com/2008/12/22/blogging-for-smart-beginners-live-webinar/
PS – You’re not likely to be terribly productive at work, today, because of the holiday calendar, so this is a great way to make the most of it without having to do any real work. 
You are right when you say that reading a blog is not the best way to learn how to blog. I have taken articles off of blogs and set up a system where it all presented in order. It makes it much easier to blog.
I think the best way to learn blogging is to simply do it on a day basis while reading other experienced bloggers blogs and simply learning from them.