Founder Armin Vit decides to call it a day on this influential and long-running design blog:
“I always believed that the amount of time and energy that we — authors and commenters alike — were all investing in Speak Up would be impossible to maintain in the long run, it was bound to crash at some point. And it did… I also strongly believe that the kind of general-topic and long-form writing of Speak Up is just not as appealing as it used to be. With so many Web sites devoted to quick bursts of visuals and the proliferation of short-message communication enhanced by Twitter and Facebook, it becomes increasingly hard to hold the attention of anyone… And since the end of 2008 we have had this nagging feeling that its time had come.”
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