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I recently had an experience that brought home the crowdsourcing nightmare currently infecting the design world. For those unfamiliar with this plague, crowdsourcing design is where you go to a site advertising logos or web sites for ridiculously low prices by setting up a “bidding” or “contest” situation. It’s the latest form of working on [...]
When you discover your work has been copied online, what should you do? I discussed this issue generally several years ago in “Legalities 9: Online Works: Registration and Copying”—read this if you encounter a copy that is not a clear plagiarist attempt to resell your work. That article also describes how to determine whether [...]
The great thing about the current times that we live in is the incredible access to information that is at our fingertips. There is a lot of this information that is readily available for Free. These three free e-books will assist you along the path of building your blog business. 3 “FREE” E-Books That Will [...]
These questions have now right or wrong answers, because sometiems asking the right questions is the answer. 1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? 2. Which is worse, failing or never trying? 3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like [...]
For many of us in the design and development communities, when we first begin down this path, we tend to go in hungry searches for knowledge and like a sponge we soak up all we can find. However, at times we can come to a plateau where we comfortably set up our virtual camp [...]
Almost every Web designer can attest that much of their work is repetitive. We find ourselves completing the same tasks, even if slightly modified, over and over for every Web project. Following a detailed website design and development process can speed up your work and help your client understand your role in the project. This [...]
With evolution of internet, the way of learning has changed a lot. Now we are not fully dependent on traditional method of reading books and journals, although its still the most wide spread technique used everywhere. We can now access online books and read different blogs and E books to enhance our knowledge and sharpen [...]
Can we make ourselves smarter? In recent decades, scientists have accumulated increasing evidence that our intelligence, at least as measured by the IQ test, is sharply constrained by genetics. Although estimates vary, most studies place the heritability of intelligence at somewhere between 50% and 80%. It’s an uncomfortable fact, but not all brains are created [...]
“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.” ~Henry David Thoreau Every weekday morning, I set off from my back gate on my bicycle, pushing away from the safe shore of home and entering the unpredictable current of urban life. Every morning, I look forward to the adventure. Over the [...]