Smashing Magazine killed the community.
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also, just to rant here, but this kind of hardly thought self-congratulatory-masterbatory crap misses the fact that the web has quite a few websites on it. one website that doesn't offer the content you wish it did probably isn't an issue considering you can go elsewhere for the content you do want.
the post spends about half of itself self-promoting what a cutting-edge web legend the author is (which is a great read...), so either this clown is setting the scene for his own online magazine that offers so-called intellectual discussion or he wanted to write for smashing mage and they told him to go fuck a goat. a sentiment i feel like reinforcing.
so if a new design blog / mag / ezine is on the way and if it's from this deep thinker i'd have to call the game early.
smashing mag calls itself a 'mag' not a 'dissertation on thoughts and moods relevant to the design of graphical elements and visual communication' and is a fine place to drop through to take a look at stuff. if you want intellectual discussion (and there's a sliding scale on that definition if this article is anything to go by) then use that web browser to find other sites offering that.
also, it wouldn't hurt this clowns page hits to run off the back of smashing mags link value. certainly crap like this thread and what i've written will possibly add towards the ranking so hurrah, we've all helped some douchebag gain minor points on the board.