Selfish Self Promotion

Filed under: Opinion 1

When is it OK to straight out ask someone to promote your content?
You know, send someone an email or tweet and say something like “Hey, I wrote this really cool article, can you help me promote it? http://bit.ly/bO2hMo ”
I am not sure if there is a cut and dry answer, however I believe there are many bloggers who are going about it the wrong way.
Self Promotion or Self Demotion?
Not a day would go by that I don’t receive at least 7-8 requests from… Read more

How Can We Improve the Design Community?

Filed under: Opinion, Posts 63

The amount of noise in the online design community is incredible. By noise, I mean distraction. Distracting content that is just whizzing around in cyberspace not really adding any value to anyone or anything.
Actually there is so much noise, that it is almost deafening. Due to this, it is becoming increasingly difficult to filter out what is useful from what is, well…rubbish.
Think about it. There are already countless design blogs, and dozens more being launched everyday. There are literally… Read more