Jackson Pollock didn’t bother with a “Troubleshootize” tab.

by admin on May 18th, 2007

Today FeedBurner channels our inner Picasso, as we proudly sponsor the Bernstein & Andriulli New Media Symposium happening this evening at the Library at The SoHo House in New York City. Bernstein & Andriulli is an artist management agency that represents all types of imaginative folks like photographers, illustrators, stylists, hair and makeup artists, interactive artists and producers. Today’s symposium ponders, “Webisodes, Mobisodes, On-Line Advergaming, Branded and Unbranded Media, Urban Vinyl Toys…What Does It All Mean?” Boy, we wish we knew (hey, we don’t have all the answers, but we do know our Monets from our Manets — and our mayonnaise, for that matter).

And with mother nature brandishing her palette of lovely Springtime hues all around us, we thought it timely to present some of our many artistic publishers who are distributing colorful feeds far and wide. Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall: a FeedBurner feed is always in Cézanne…uh, season.

Take Vernissage TV, for instance. Year-round, this video podcast takes you to art exhibitions and events to provide insight into the social side of the world of art. Gallery Hopper, likewise, is a guide to the best of fine art photography, galleries and events specifically in New York City.

Art museums across the globe are hopping on the blogging bandwagon, as reported by Sebastian Chan of Powerhouse Museum and Jim Spadaccini of Ideum who recently published a study on the issue. Museums artfully burning feeds include the Grace Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museums. Keeping an eye on them all is E-Artcasting, a research project all about sociable technologies in art museums.

Of the “Art Shall Be Both Seen AND Heard” school come several museum podcasts. The San Jose Art Museum has an Artist of the Week podcast, the SFMOMA’s Artcast, the Museum of Glass GlassCast, Henry Artcast, and the Las Vegas Museum of Art podcast and newsfeed. Guess what happens in Vegas (Degas?), doesn’t always stay in Vegas after all, in this mixed up world of distributed media.

Can FeedBurner deliver art feeds from places other than museums? You bet we Kandinsky do that too! Brush up on a spectrum of design disciplines from architecture and landscaping to fashion and dress from Dezeen, MoCo Loco, and Design Hub. Some artists are joining creative forces through feeds such as the Wooster Collective, We Make Money Not Art, and Worldwide Women Artists. Speaking of our wide world, New Climates presents new and existing artworks responding to the relationship between art and global climate change. Another posse of artists have come together in Hidden City Arts, using BuzzBoost to promote several of their feeds throughout their website in a cross-pollination effort that puts Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to shame.

Have an appetite for more art? Even tastier than Warhol’s soup du jour, BrainyQuote serves up an Art Quote of the Day that will feed your need for words of wisdom about art and by artists. Or purchase some real life printed books on the matter from David Krut Publishing and Art Resource. Wash it all down with a beverage from Art of the Drink, where you can wet your whistle with a flavorful how-to video podcast on mixing cocktails. How Dali-cious!

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog

FeedBurner Adopts Two-Year-Old, Renames it ‘FeedSmith’

by admin on May 4th, 2007

It’s official. We’ve signed adoption papers for the popular WordPress plugin that seamlessly redirects requests for an ordinary feed (from self-hosted WordPress blogs) to your super-powered FeedBurner feed. This plugin — a toddler in age, but a prodigy with HTTP requests — will be made available directly from FeedBurner as “FeedSmith.” It was originally raised by the multi-talented Steve Smith, who’s trusting us to ensure its continued well-being.

If you aren’t already familiar with this handy plugin, you should know it’s a reliable way to track your entire feed-reading audience and can even result in that elusive “bump in subscribers” effect when you first activate it. What the plugin accomplishes, in Steve’s own words:

Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user-agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

An older version used to require changes to your Apache server’s .htaccess fille; the current version has no such requirements so it will work with any permalink structure you might use. Not only that, FeedSmith is compatible with WordPress versions 2.x and 1.5. In other words, it should work for pretty much everyone who uses a self-hosted WordPress installation. (If you are currently using Steve Smith’s original “Ordered List FeedBurner plugin” and it is working to your satisfaction, you do not need to upgrade or switch, but keep in mind any new versions of this plugin will be available directly from FeedBurner in the future.)

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog and haven’t yet redirected your feed, check out our easy-to-follow WordPress Quick Start guide, learn how to install the plugin, and rest assured that all of your adoring subscribers use your FeedBurner feed. Questions? We’re mighty busy putting the breakables on high shelves and installing those balky stairwell barriers to keep the little guy out of trouble, but feel free to visit our Support Forums; we’ll make sure we get back to ya.

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog