Hey there! Welcome. Your opinion matches my own – it’s all an information cycle that gets sour after a whole.

Your blog is quite remarkable – useful and paying too much attention to detail (a trait that I love). Thanks for stopping by!

I absolutely agree with you. Not so long ago it was actually very difficult to find good tutorials, Photoshop brushes, fonts, inspirations etc… but now… oh dear. New design blogs and galleries springing up every day — aggregating each other, sharing content, re-sharing content and then compiling it all into yet another list.

I actually don’t think it’s so much about money — more a desire to own your own blog and share something valuable. Of course, not everyone makes their own content; it’s very easy — and effective — to put together lists of other resources. People see this, and jump on the bandwagon.

We’re standing on the shoulders of giants here.

Zeldman (his book Designing with Web Standards) and ALA are one of the catalysts that helped you and me having a decent job nowadays in designing websites.

I hate so-called experts and deities as much as the next girl, but hey, it’s ALA we’re talking here. Ten years of solid content and dozens of methods I (and you) use daily.

I’d follow them even if they turned to gaming reviews.

What I criticize here is the ephemeral of the whole resources thing.

@Stellabouras: I do disagree man. Once upon a time it could be pure info and nothing else. Hardcore devotion to give something back to the community. Now, ah.. ‘m not sure. I just have this feeling.

It’s all about making money? I don’t think so mate.

I really don’t think that ‘A list Apart’ has money in mind when delivering such high quality content.

We are talking about A list Apart here…

You can’t even compare now to 5 years ago, let’s get realistic here.

Creativity or value have nothing to do with the abundance of methods. There’s inspiration and solution to be found everywhere.

Yeah, it’s all about making money. That’s why so many resource site clones (and I mean it, clones, just dry aggregation and nothing else) have spawned during the last year. Advertisements and link love.

It’s up to me to evaluate these resources, keep, read use the worthy ones and heck yeah share with other people once more.

I just prefer this era from the one 5 years ago where someone needed a whole day to spot -or- create something valuable.

Now about Zeldman and his friends,i believe they should stick with what they do best. Web Standards.

And after all those years following those guys and reading every bit that comes out, i’m sure it’s not them who decided to change stuff. Maybe it’s just me but i think, The Deck and The Event Apart (it’s all about making money at the end of the day, isn’t?) have a word on that “change”.

“Change, we can believe in”

But, sure, the whole information overload from web design resource/dev/tip sites is unbearable. We need to focus in more interesting matters.