10 Things Virtually Fine Art This Calendar Week #1

1. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 modify for my Lord's Day posts

"10 things almost art" is a flake of an experiment - to encounter if I tin give notice write a briefer post almost fine art on alternate Sundays.  The thought is to write almost fewer things only perchance say a flake more.  It's looking pretty lengthy at the 2nd only I'm enjoying focusing inwards to a greater extent than depth on fewer subjects.

There are no posts from fine art blogs identified this calendar week - encounter especial 2 equally to why!

Thanks for all your comments which direct maintain been reaching me via a number of channels.  I've loved everything yous said almost what yous liked the best.

2. It's going to live to a greater extent than hard to follow Art Blogs via a Feed Reader from July (or is it?)

What the Death of Google Reader Means for Your Feeds past times Jonathan Bailey (Plagiarism Today)

I'm currently experimenting alongside alternative feedreaders for 

• broadcasting the publication of a post on my blog(s)
• reading fine art blogs without having to see each spider web log individually

I'm really much biased towards webware accessible via dissimilar platforms inwards dissimilar places.

• I'm continuing to manually post spider web log posts to my Facebook page - alongside a brief comment.  (Don't utilisation Networked Blogs for automated posting - Facebook volition bury the post)
• I tried Bloglines (which is what I originally used) - yet it's a consummate waste matter of time.  I create NOT recommend switching to Bloglines
• I'm currently trying Newsblur - for which I had to fork out $24p.a. for the premium service because I needed to transfer 554 feeds (!) most of which are to create alongside art.  

Screenshot of what Newsblur looks like
Left pane: List of feeds inwards a folder
Middle pane: List of spider web log posts on 1 blog
Right pane: Text in addition to images from the spider web log (with dissimilar options for what it looks like)

• So far, I've discovered:
• they direct maintain an incredibly piece of cake method for transferring feeds from Google Reader - whizzbangwhallop - mine took almost 2 minutes!
• it tells me which feeds are dead or dying on their feet.  I'm afraid I've got a cull going on at the 2nd - I had no thought I had 554 feeds!
• I tin give notice organise the feeds into folders - which was the large attraction of newsblur over feedly equally I already had really good developed folder organisation for feeds - in addition to this was transferred across without problem.  Feedly crosses platforms easily only doesn't seem to direct maintain the construction to create out alongside heavyweight feed usage in addition to the involve for a folder structure.
• I tin give notice facial expression at folders, a listing of posts in addition to the actual content of an private post all at the same fourth dimension (see image).  Heady stuff!  This lonely agency I'm non going dorsum to Google Reader fifty-fifty if I could.  It also agency I'm going to live expecting a lot from spider web log post titles to tell me what a post is almost only twas always thus!
• Plus I tin give notice tell which of my feeds are expert at producing content (a number shows upward to tell me how much unread cloth it has)
• The downside - I'm silent looking for the search facility - which I used to utilisation a lot inwards Google Reader in addition to I haven't constitute it equally yet.  (I forthwith have confirmation - at that topographic point is no search facility - which is sad!)
• I learn an associated spider web log of my ain - makingamark.newsblur.com !  It's a flake similar posting posts to Facebook - alongside a comment.  Not certain whether I'm going to create it for every 1 - only so far I've shared two.  Plus I tin give notice also portion posts from other people equally I come upward across them - much equally I create on Facebook.  So perchance this is similar a Facebook page for non-Facebook people or an expanded Twitter?
• The message today from Newsblur was equally follows

Welcome to all of yous wonderful Google Reader expats! Please live patient patch servers stabilize. Many novel servers direct maintain been added in addition to forthwith the backend is existence rewritten to back upward 10X increase inwards a unmarried week.

Do delight learn out comments almost your sense alongside novel alternative feedreaders this week

3.  Australia loves fine art in addition to fine art competitions

Why does Commonwealth of Australia create such expert fine art competitions?

I think when I showtime went to Commonwealth of Australia inwards 1997 my sis told me that fine art is taken seriously past times the Aussies in addition to the fine art competitions run past times the Art Gallery of New South wales are taken VERY seriously.  I went to encounter the Archibald patch I was at that topographic point in addition to came away really impressed.

I've been noticing inwards the past times few years that Commonwealth of Australia has really expert fine art competitions alongside about hefty prizes in addition to fantabulous media coverage.  Most impressive is the really potent cultural heritage and contemporary issues which come upward through inwards the fine art which is submitted.  They actually position the fine art competitions inwards this dry soil to shame!

See:

• Google announced this week that it is closing downwards Google Reader - which is something of a employment organisation for me equally a really large number of my subscribers utilisation Google Reader to follow this blog.