The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Amazon to screw, I mean pay self-published Kindle authors only for pages read.
Amazon’s new system will cut the royalties for self-published authors who fail
to hold a reader’s attention until the final pageTags: Writing Am writing selfpub ePub - Experiencing Blogging Block? Then You Need These 6 Tips and Tools
Suffering blogging block? How are you supposed to continue blogging and still keep your posts interesting, relevant, and high quality? Here are some tipsTags: Writing Blogging
- How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers? NY Times Calculator Tells You
Answer the questions below to learn which parts of your identity may have been stolen in some of the major hacking attacks over the last two years and what you can do about it.Tags: Privacy Security Malware hack
- Want to argue about politics and religion? Take it to this new social network.
While there are plenty of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter that connect people, they all have one thing in common: shying away from discussing what’s important: politics, religion, and social news. If you’re keen to have a discussion about these topics, but don’t want to use the normal social channels, you’ll want Roust, the new invitation-only social network where discourse is welcomed.
- How iOS9 Can Help Publishers Boost Digital Subscriptions
Like them or not, the changes that will hit the market in October mean publishers need to prepare and be ready to leverage them to their advantage, according to Keith Ahern in Publishing Executive.Tags: iOS9 eprdctn emag digimag DPS
- How iOS9 Can Help Publishers Boost Digital Subscriptions
Like them or not, the changes that will hit the market in October mean publishers need to prepare and be ready to leverage them to their advantage, according to Keith Ahern in Publishing Executive.Tags: iOS9 eprdctn emag digimag DPS
- Google Minus: Google keeps backing all the wrong social products
Google gives resources to the products no one wants and neglects what users do want.Tags: Google GooglePlus
- Adobe Pen Tool: Fundamentals in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Creating precise lines, curves, and shapes with the Pen tool is challenging to learn and even tougher to master, but the power it gives your drawings is worth the effort. Even though the technology has been in Adobe products for decades, there are cou…
- 4 Popular Productivity Tips That Should Be Ignored
Some of the productivity ideas sold to us are sometimes unfounded, and often mistaken. Let’s debunk a few of these productivity myths by showing that the opposite may just as likely be true.Tags: productivity
- The 50 Best Apps and Resources For Writers
The definitive list of the top 50 apps and resources to help you elevate your writing to the next level.Tags: Writing AmWriting copywriting
- Expand Your Thinking, Not Just Your Skillset
Give your skills something worthy to shareTags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- What ‘The Rat Pack’ Can Teach Us About Academic Prose
Not only are they funny and libatious, they can slip in and out of songs in order to dialogue with the audience or another musician. Sometimes it’s just to crack a joke, or other times its to call for a rhythm change or solo. But most importantly, The Rat Pack does so without ever losing rhythm. In a strange way The Rat Pack has made me think about the literary world–particularly academic writing.
- The 18 best blogging platforms on the internet in 2015
- Why infographics are the secret to super SEO
startup founders need pay attention to one jargon in SEO: inbound links. “…if you do enough excellent, interesting, useful, funny, compelling stuff, usually your reputation, or your links, however you want to think of it, takes care of itself.” says Matt Cutts.
Tags: Marketing Infographics SEO SEM
- Resources for creating a typeface
First of all don’t expect to create high quality professional fonts right from the start — it will take time and practice. But, if you’re simply looking to create a custom font or would like to try your hand these resources will certainly help you get the job done, so here are some tools, books and articles related to typography I thought might be useful for beginners.
Tags: typography design
- Why Digital Ads are Losing Value at an Alarming Rate
Those days are gone, he insists, and the ad business has gone from partner and friend of publishers to adversary and threat.Tags: eprdctn emag digimag
- How to successfully run a crowdfunding campaign
Crowdfunding campaigns have become the go-to funding strategy for new startups and entrepreneurs. Everyone is turning to crowdfunding to get their businesses off the ground. It is oversaturated with ideas and not a given that any particular campaign w…
- Print advertising: 95 brilliant examples
Print ads can still be the most powerful medium for getting your message across, as these highly innovative print advertising campaigns show.
- Delivering Offline Content on Mobile is a Game Changer
One topic that has come up more frequently is the availability of content offline and the value it provides. Although we live in a world where being hyper connected seems to be a key productivity driver, delivering solutions that enable people to interact with content in places where connectivity is at a premium, has become a top priority.
The three main business areas where we’re seeing the most demand for the consumption of offline content are: sales, education/corporate training and employee engagement. - 300+ Free Halloween Fonts via Pariah Burke
Each year I scour the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts—living or dead. I’ve found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts—and they’re all free! You can download each of them below in TrueType format for use on either Windows or Mac OS X. Have fun!
- Author Platforms and Authority Sites – Writer’s Jargon or Necessity?
There are two terms bandied about in the freelance writing game that are fairly recent and subject to all hype and confusion. They are author platforms and authority sites.
The definition of both author platforms an authority sites is often not clear. Learn why freelance writers may need one or both.
- Why The iPad Pro Isn’t Just A Bigger iPad
If you think the new iPad Pro is “just a bigger iPad”, you’re wrong. It’s a new way of iPad-ing.
- 10 Mayors On The Issues Facing Cities
From health care to equality to increasing the minimum wage, here’s what the leaders of our cities say they need to focus on.
- Why I won’t run another startup
Earlier this year, I closed my startup. So now I get to reflect on what I’d have done differently. Hindsight is unfair and inaccurate, but I still enjoy its lessons. This is one, a note to my future self: Don’t call your projects ‘startups’. It’s a semantic trick, but a really important one. Here’s why.
Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- 14 Big Opportunities In Enterprise Markets You Should Be Seizing
Business is big business for startups again.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Die Flash Die: The Ongoing History of Tech Companies Trying to Kill Flash
But this isn’t the first time that Flash has come under fire. The tech community has been seemingly obsessed with its destruction for years.
Here’s the who, why and how behind the downfall of Flash.
Tags: Flash HTML5 Flashpocalypse
- As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change – NYTimes
So Mr. Minton, a 26-year-old math major, took a three-month course in computer programming and data analysis. As a waiter, he made $20,000 a year. His starting salary last year as a data scientist at a web start-up here was more than $100,000.
- 3 Signs of a Selfish (and Highly Incompetent) Leader | Inc.com
How to spot a really incompetent boss.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- How To Kill The Password: Don’t Ask
Medium is the latest to put ye olde password in the crosshairs.Tags: Privacy Security Malware hack