I’ve gotten spoiled by working with the History Commons, where I can control pretty much what gets published throughout the process. :)

I think what surprised me the most is how many professional or semi-pro Web designers posted about how they had never considered their font usage before reading the article. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but jeez….

@Michael Thanks for the compliment. Yes the year 2008 was politically super charged not only in US. All the best to you and the rest of the world with the new changes. Hope we’ll see some improvements sooner than later.

I think you’re being a bit too modest about your competence in the field of Web Typography. And your recent article on SitePoint is proof for that (even though the published version differs from your original).

@Everyone, if you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check out Michael’s excellent article on SitePoint: 8 ‘Definitive’ Web Font Stacks

I was also inspired by the huge outpouring of effort and passion on behalf of the Obama campaign here in the States. It wasn’t so much a “we love Obama” phenomenon as a tide-turning outcry for change and positive growth, and a mass rejection of the policies and mindsets of hatred, xenophobia, and criminality that has become the political norm in the US. I played a tiny part in that and am very happy to have done so, even if the Obama administration doesn’t turn out to be the progressive “saviors of the universe” that some people hope.

Ciao!

@Piotr You’re very welcome and thanks for elaborating more on your sources of inspiration. Much better than your very eloquent response on Twitter ;)

In fact Jon’s articles is where most of the present Designr’s interface was born and I’m very grateful for all the knowledge he’ve shared over the last months. Both Jon and John had, and will continue to have, a great impact on me and my style. Kind regards to both of them.

However it’s not only (web) typography I got that excited about. After seeing Andy Budd speaking at the Future Of Web Design conference in London last year I got interested in user experience design and have been developing my passion for that since then. I have a great respect for Andy’s work and I wish I could be at least half as good as he is at what he does.

There are tens of things that inspire me every day, hundreds every week, thousands every month. The above are the main ones, the BIG stuff.

This is truly wonderful post, but you already know that ;)

Cheers

For me personally, I’m a delicio.us addict and the StumbleUpon button is starting to look very worn on my browser.

Jacob, thanks, for the stumble and the encouragement.

@Deb wow, I love how you express your excitement. Glad you liked this post and everyone’s input.

@Johno, thanks. I’ve installed TweetDeck, and trying it out now. I’m not crazy about their layout, would’ve preferred to be able to switch between groups with tabs or a dropdown, rather than horisontal scrolling. But the filtering options are great!

@David Thanks for the encouragement. At least it’s a relief to see that I’m not the only one struggling with that. ;) I should start posting shorter pieces, but so far all the ideas I have require some research and a longer input. Perhaps I could start interspersing long posts with short ones.

To help keep writing brief, I remind myself that most readers prefer short, sharp, to the point articles. That’s not to say I wouldn’t love each of my pieces to have the content of this one! Johno’s type round-ups are also far from brief, and, rightly so, gain a lot of praise.

I’m one of those people who check, edit, re-check, check again, publish, re-check, edit…. so I’m really not the best person to be handing out advice. ;)