Brian and I (the guys who run this joint) are committed to devoting our lives to bringing this type of helpful, informative content to people.

We both believe that people can build Web sites and achieve great things on their own, and that some targeted guidance and solid information are likely the only things holding them back from success.

With that in mind, we run four sites whose individual goals are to all essentially the same—to enrich the community and to help people succeed online.

• Tubetorial
• Pearsonified
• Copyblogger
• Cutline

I presume that you also have mouths to feed, and I think before you take a stab at the work we’ve done, you ought to peruse our network of sites and marvel at the sheer amount of content that we’ve created recently.

All of that content is meant to help others, and we never directly ask for anything in return.

I don’t charge you to subscribe; I don’t force you to sign up to leave comments that are shortsighted at best; and I don’t mislead you or tell you anything that isn’t true.

There’s nothing that isn’t transparent about any of our sites, and I simply think you need to be more of a realist with regard to what’s going on here.