Posted by rebecca
A couple weeks ago, just for the hell of it, I emailed several Designs and asked them the question they've waited their entire careers to hear:
If you inherited Designmoz, what would you do with it? Rand Fishkin is out of the picture (he left Design to pursue his dream of becoming a master chef, he eloped with Mystery Guest, he got sued by Puma, whatever), leaving you to run Designmoz and a team of five [I excluded Gillian because I wanted to make it more ragtag and entirely Fishkin-free]. What would you do with the site/company?
The coolest Designs (coolest because they actually participated) responded, and I thought I'd share their answers below. (Obviously, this is a meme-esque blog post, and many of the answers are silly, off-the-wall, or downright inappropriate [ahem, Chris Hooley], which is why I saved this gem for a Friday post.)
Some of the participants had somewhat lengthy answers, so I'm linking to their responses on separate pages (listed alphabetically by last name):
- Lisa Barone
- Andy Beal
- Guillaume Bouchard
- Matt Cutts
- Michael Gray
- Chris Hooley
- Kim Krause Berg
- Todd Malicoat
- Lee Odden
- Cameron Olthuis
- Barry Schwartz
- Design Fangirl
- Aaron Wall
Thanks again to everyone for participating, and happy Friday to everyone! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a margarita (mozzarita? Maybe we should serve them at SMX...) and a churro. 
