Saturday, January 8, 2005

Not your average blogger

by Suw on January 8, 2005

Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of writing for the inaugural edition of Design In-Flight, an online PDF magazine for designers. My feature, It’s not just all pretty pictures, took a look at how content affects web design, navigation and page layout and I'm happy to say that you can now dowload it in full (PDF, 110k).
I now have a new feature running in the January edition examining the reasons why designers keep blogs and what they get out of it.

Not your average blogger
It's tempting to dismiss weblogs as the personal online diaries of semi-literate teenagers, or vehicles for the inflated egos of opinionated politicos. Yet a blog can also be an invaluable business tool for designers wanting to improve their online presence and find new clients. Suw Charman talked to four design bloggers who have cut a path through the blogging jungle to find out why — and how they do it.

Why do Bloggers Blog?
“I see it as a community,” says Jon Hicks of hicksdesign, “and if I don't blog, I don't feel like a part of that community. It's a place that's larger than the room where my computer is and I love that feeling. There's a great community spirit whenever I've asked a question or put forward ideas — other bloggers' responses have been really helpful, and that's a lifeline I wouldn't have if it wasn't for blogging.”

Subscribe to read the rest! (It's well worth it – $10 for 4 issues)

Many thanks to Jason Santa Maria, Jon Hicks, Todd Dominey and Eric Meyer for their time and help.

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A while ago I was invited to contribute to a trivia-of-dubious-provenance blog and was only too happy to accept, as my head is full of the damn stuff. So every now and again I post to HeardSaid with trivia that might be right, or might be wrong – it's up to you to figure out which.
Just thought you'd like to know.

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Questionable Content

by Suw on January 8, 2005

Best online comic I've seen in ages and ages. I suggest you start with the first one, and work your way through, rofling and loling as you go. Then, when you get to the latest one, you can suffer like the rest of us, waiting for the next.
I do wish that Jeph Jacques would get an RSS feed set up though – I'm crap at remembering to go and see if a new strip is up.

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Link thievery 3

by Suw on January 8, 2005

I really want to meet these native Latin speakers and businesses who need specialist Latin websites…

With a team of specialist Latin translators, programmers, designers and localisation experts, Translation Express can localise your website from Latin to Latin or Latin to Latin or any other language from or into Latin.

(Via NTK.)

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