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The new site has been designed to be more acessible and useful for you. Yes, you. We do this because we love you. I would like to point out a few features that will make notifications concerning events and exhibitions easier to receive. First off, there is a calendar in the sidebar that can alert you to upcoming events. It also houses a link labeled “iCal.” If you have a calendaring program or site such as iCal (OSX), Sunbird, Facebook, Upcoming.org, or Google calendar, you may click on the link (or copy and paste it into your calendar) and all published Gallery events will populate your calendar. You won’t have to miss another opening, lecture, or workshop again.

The site now publishes newsfeeds to which you may subscribe. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of a newsfeed, it is generated content to be read by an automated news reader or aggregator. An aggregator or news reader will automatically notify you when a site you’ve bookmarked publishes new content. The following suggested programs* and sites will allow you to delve into the world of newsfeeds.

PC

• Feed Demon / 30 Day Free Trial
• Awasu / Free

Mac

• NetNewsWire Lite / Free (Download link is at the bottom of the page, don’t click the one at the top)

Internet Based, Platform Neutral and Free

• Bloglines
• News Gator
• My Yahoo
• Google Reader
• Kinja

Using a news reader listed above, you can subscribe to one of the Gallery’s newsfeeds, also called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Sites that publish newsfeeds will often use the following terms or symbols to identify their feed: RSS, newsfeed, atom, or

There are a lot of terms — some easy to grasp, some irritably obtuse. However, once you get the hang of RSS, aggregators and their ilk, you can selectively harvest your own news. Most major newspapers publish RSS feeds along side thousands of other websites. You can opt to receive the BBC headlines, New York Times Arts section, your friends’ Flickr photos, and The Gallery of Contemporary Art’s events listings — all conveniently updated in your aggregator when new content is published.

Why, even in Colorado Springs there are a number of newsfeeds published for your reading pleasure. Mark Arnest from the Gazette publishes an art blog documenting cultural happenings in the Pike’s Peak Region. Atomic Elroy of the now defunct (sniff) Chaos Studios publishes a blog/vlog. Newspeak, the scrappy and precocious newcomer to the indie publishing scene in the Springs, began a blog a few months ago and is on top of all the news in the area. You can read about it without having to wait for the paper.

If you would like to know a bit more about RSS and syndication, please visit the tutorial at Mezzoblue for a more thorough and knowlegable introduction.

* The Gallery does not guarantee the availabilty or quality of these programs and sites.

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