In my limited experience of reading smashingmagazine.com articles they quite often lack any meaningful depth, are often link bait, often lists of limited value (612 got Wordpress themes that use the colour blue...) and worst of all is that I find the ads overwhelming (quantity and content).

http://skitch.com/davidmcclain/d7k79/successful-freelancing-...

For me this was akin to an offer of a burger. Great, I love burgers but oh, it's from McDonalds? I don't like McDonalds burgers. My comment was the equivalent of "I was interested in your burger until I saw it was from McDonalds".

If you guys get something out of it then great. I don't mean to or want to begrudge you of a useful resource.

I'd also be interested in learning why you couldn't;t read Smashing Magazine. Thanks.

Why?