> Not everyone self-promotes to the same extent as Mr. Shaw, or has other people promote them. I don't know much about Zed. I've seen his name and articles her

> Not everyone self-promotes to the same extent as Mr. Shaw, or has other people promote them. I don't know much about Zed. I've seen his name and articles here on HN, of course. I read you comment and was curious. I found nothing but a URL in his HN profile and zero submissions attributed to him here. From my very brief scan of his comments on HN posts, it seems like they are on topic. He's not hijacking threads. So here on HN, at least, it appears that others are doing the promoting. Zed seems to write original essays and he seems to have strong feelings and opinions on topics that interest the hacker crowd. And dude's got a memorable name. It reminds me of SEO strategy: Write original, compelling articles and you won't need SEO.