Comments on: It’s your blog

By: Jesus

Jesus — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:19:43 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk wrote a book called “Crush It” and it talks about your personal brand and how everything you do online affects how the public sees you. Content thieves obviously do not care about their personal brand because most of them do it so blatantly. It really makes me sick. How hard is it to just give credit where credit is due?!

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:18:42 +0000

My pleasure, Doug. I find the same differences in many of the comments I’ve left on my posts, and, on occasion, have edited those, too. I need to tell myself, “Enough,” however, given the thousands of comments on show.

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:34:29 +0000

David: thx for the reply. What you said makes complete sense. When you progress as a writer, you want to keep less-progressed work out of the current mix of what you are presenting to your audience. Older work may not adequately reflect current understanding, style, or any number of attributes that don’t line up with where you are now as a writer and designer. I have some pruning to do…

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:31:03 +0000

Doug, over the past few years I’ve removed a few posts I thought weren’t right, but with that note on Twitter you saw, I was referring to the language used, and the thoughts expressed. For instance, when I look at some of my earliest blog posts, I see that I no longer talk in exactly the same way (and it’s important to write as if you’re talking). Does that make sense?

By: Douglas Bonnevile

Douglas Bonnevile — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:42:02 +0000

David:

On a related note, you tweeted a few weeks aback about editing or purging your archives, but there wasn’t any elaboration.

Have you gotten rid of what you came to consider “off topic” articles from your archives at any point to both increase the overall site density for SEO reasons? Of course there is the parallel branding aspect of removing off topic articles, but I wonder what your thoughts are on that.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:11:11 +0000

Yep you are very right. I’ve started a blog recently and it’s hard not to think “What do people want to see?”, “What do people want to hear?”, “This video is funny, I should put it on my blog!”… Really, people want to hear the bloggers stories, thoughts, opinions. But at the same time, a site to promote the person’s work shouldn’t get too personal.

By: Jon Liebold

Jon Liebold — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:13:04 +0000

Never been out of the US except for Canada.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:17:04 +0000

Have you been to Ireland before, Jon? If you go for it, all the very best. I’d not swap my internship in the US for anything. Great learning experience.

Sneh, what an absolute joker. It’s ridiculous what some people think will fly.

By: Sneh Roy

Sneh Roy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:55:53 +0000

It happened to me a few months ago when I client I had worked with forwarded me an email from a guy who was offering his design services to them. In the email, he had my logo and the logos of few other designers I personally know and he was showing them off as samples of his work. Some of those logos were also on his portfolio website. My client recognized my stuff instantly and alerted me. When I emailed this “thief”, he actually replied back saying “It was only used to show off as a sample as I didn’t have enough work of my own and I thought those logos looked good. You should actually be flattered!” .. Needless to say I was appalled by the gall of this guy …..

By: Clyde

Clyde — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:59:29 +0000

Your blog and what you write on it says a lot about you, its nice to have dedicated bloggers like this one here with original content that’s actually useful, short and precise. keep up the good work.