How Things End Up on Brand New

No one has really asked, but given that my brandnew@ e-mail account is swelling with unanswered e-mails about tips and suggestions, I feel a self-imposed burden to explain a little bit of how I choose which identities we review here on Brand New.Replying First things first: I have found it impossible to reply to every single e-mail that comes in. Since I started Speak Up back in 2002 I made it a point to answer every conceivable question or inquiry that came through my inbox as a way of paying back the attention that people have paid to our web sites. But I never expected to get up to 15 or 20 e-mails a day just for Brand New. Which is undeniably great, because those e-mails become the main source of our content. But let’s all agree that unless you are asking a specific question or h