RSS Feeds: Split Public Feeds...Premium Feed Also Announced
March 20, 2005
This will be the last public post that will be sent out on the general RSS feed. With the launch of the new site, I have begun splitting the feeds I send out into general topic area.
For those few who read my posts via RSS readers, the new public feeds are as follows:
If you still want the full meal deal offered by the old RSS feed, you will need to get in touch with me and request an account (free of course).
We're live
March 19, 2005
It took a little longer than I would have liked, but the new site is here. A lot has changed visually and from a content posting perspective. Essentially this site is more about my work – User Experience and Photography and less about blogging about every little thing that tickles my fancy.
As time goes on you are going to see more of the following:
- Splitting of my RSS feeds into 3 individual feeds depending upon your interest (User Experience, Photography, and del.icio.us)
- Renewed focus on User Experience topics based upon recent research and projects
- Detailed Case Studies
- Featured Portfolio Samples
- Fine Art Photography from my 20+ year catalog of work
Update: The Shape of Things to Come
January 11, 2005
The bees have been very busy behind the scenes since December. Behind a few locked doors I have the new version of the site in active development. All that remains is a few template conversions and a few final color changes to the design.
With any luck and some available free time, this space will change in the next two weeks.
The Shape of Things to Come
December 06, 2004
I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to do with this space lately. I have even looked back at previous versions of this site going back to the pre-Blogger/MovableType days of 1997-8...(ewwwe).
After all this reflection, I think I know what I am going to do with this space now. Without revealing too much, I think I can just show you with this preliminary wireframe (© 2004 artfernandez.com).
Since everything is not up in this image, the rest is up to you to interpret exactly what I have in mind here. I am not going to share everything, that wouldn't be very fun or exciting.
The End of The Blog
November 04, 2004
It has been 4 years...4 years of solid (almost) non-stop blogging. My blog is tired. I am tired.
So, it is time to do something more interesting with this space. I don't know what that is going to be, but it sure won't be a blog.
Let's not call this goodbye, but a very long hiatus.
- art
Blog: Audioscrobbler Enabled
September 09, 2004
Thanks to Lance for getting me into and hooked on audioscrobbler. The service appeals to the narcissist side of me by posting the music I am listening to (and I listen to quite a bit of it at the office) as well as makes suggestions of new artists that I may like based upon my listening habits. With one little plug-in for iTunes and an account I get all that and more. That is very cool.
So, I am on this new service and searchable via my profile.
Blog is Now Flickr Enabled
September 07, 2004
With the death of my Server and the fact that I managed to break my personal version of Gallery, I decided to move to flickr as a means of sharing photos until my new G5 shows up from Apple.
The cool think about flickr is that is will tie right into my rss feed via feedburner and it will let you publish remotely to your blog directly from your flickr account. How cool is that?
So, there you go, I can now be found on flickr as art fernandez.
Ding Dong the Mac Server is Dead
August 28, 2004
24 hours later the site makes a triumphant return to the web. Thanks to a fried power supply and logic board, the Hydra of a G4 running OS X Server unsupported finally died. I knew it was coming...the noise from the power supply was deafening for the last week or so. Nevertheless, it died last night.
So the server had to be moved and rebuilt on my G4 Gigabit Tower. Now I am in the market for a new PC for my everyday use. I doubt that it will be a Mac this time around. Yes, that is sacrilege coming from me, but the cost of Apple Iron right now is just too rich for my blood.
Expanding Content & Change
August 24, 2004
I wanted to make a quick post and let folks know about a few changes that are imminent here and also on the other sites I run.
First of all, I am starting to write about User Experience again (UXP to use an Art-like acronymn). So, you will notice that the "user experience" topic is back on the left nav. I stopped posting things here awhile back about the field because I was mentally tired and also in the face of so many blogs on the subject.
However, in the time that has elapsed I have worked on several projects that have combined defining Global User Experiences, multi-lingual localization, and the concept of 1-to-Many Content Publishing. These are things that I am particularly interested in when balanced against usability to international audiences. Based upon my experience in these areas, I feel that I have some truly unique insights to share as well as comment on. So, the UXP blog is back.
Secondly, work is steadily progressing on illuminare. This is a domain I have owned since 1996 and was at one time the backbone of my independent consulting business. However, as I became more involved in corporate usability work, my time for consulting ended. So, illuminare is going to become home to a new black & white fine art photography photoblog with other revenue based business tie-ins.
Finally, my personal site is a little stale. So, over the next few months you will see a few concept user interfaces put out there for testing and public evaluation. Several of the changes are already out there on the site in one form or another, so the next steps are really a gradual evolution of the site. Some of the thoughts I am entertaining is possibility of segmenting off the more general blogs topics onto a another site or moving away from a more standard type of blog that is just too common on the web.
Update: Migration of RSS Feed Complete
August 10, 2004
Q: "Wait a minute, you just announced a change to your RSS Feed. You're making the switch now? That was a short 'few days.' "
A: Yeah, well I got the new feed to work the way I wanted faster than I thought,
As previously announced, I have decided to migrate my RSS feed over to feedburner. The reasons for this are too many to list, but essentially maintaining multiple versions of my RSS feed for all of my blogs has become a pain. Couple that with my extensive use of de.licio.us and the need for change became clear.
Feedburner gives me the power to post one RSS feed and have the feed automatically adjust to the RSS reader (even if it uses say rdf or atom). No fuss, no muss.
So after today, the only official RSS feed for artfernandez.com will be reachable here. If you have your RSS reader pointed at any of the older feeds, you will need to update your bookmarks for the full and complete site and content experience.
Now Publishing via del.icio.us
de.licio.us artfer01 bookmarks and clippings are now available.
Moving RSS Feeds Permanently
August 09, 2004
I'm now using Feedburner to process my RSS Feed. All other RSS feeds will be dropped over the next week.
So if you want the full site experience or if you are using Bloglines, point your aggregators here.