Cory Doctorow on How to Be a Better Blogger
Sep 7, 12:49 PM by Rich Webster
This is a video which is well worth watching for anyone self-promoting via blogs. I recommend blogs to everyone, and create quite a few for local businesses and individuals. Cory is among the more successful bloggers, and he is part of the team at BoingBoing.com which is one of my favorite blogs.
Anyway, here’s the video.
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7 Steps to Creating Quality
Sep 9, 08:44 PM by Rich Webster
I found this thing by a guy who blogs about board game design. We can always learn more about creating quality, so here it is.
My three steps towards creating quality:
1. Figure out who’s going to care if it’s good, and what THEY think is good. If you’re a graphic designer, this is especially true because people are really screwy about what they think is good.
2. Find the best examples of what they think is good, with their help. This is not always easy, because sometimes you’re presented with contradictory definitions. Find what they really identify in those contradictory examples, A/B presentations (do you prefer this [show example] or [this, show other example]). Alternatively, this may require psychic powers, fMRIs, and torture. (Torturing the client is often tricky, but if you do it right, you can often insure prompt payment, while you’re at it.)
3. Make the best possible example of that definition of quality. If you can’t, don’t try, turn down the project.
This is completely true, yet completely facetious.
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