Yes, we’ve been busy building out the BlogBridge Topic Guides. Today we are announcing the start of a whole new department, called “Creativity / The Arts”. Take a look:

• Art News - a collection of blogs and feeds with news from the art world
• Photo Bloggers - lots of photographers like to show off their work in a blog
• Cartoons and Cartoonists - professional cartoonist Mark Anderson curates this collection
• Artists who Blog - many artists love to share their passion and show off work in progress and finished pieces
• Newspaper Comics - A fairly huge set of feeds of comics from newspapers around the world

And this is just the start. If you can suggest a Topic Expert on some creativity and arts related topic, please introduce her to us so we can try and entice them into joining forces with us.

Technorati Tags: Creativity, The Arts, art world, cartoonist

BlogBridge is designed for people who need to follow many blogs and rss feeds. If all you do online is read the front page of the NYTimes, follow the Red Sox, and read DailyKos then you probably don’t need Blogbridge. But if you read five or ten papers, a dozen or more blogs, track multiple projects, get lots of email alerts or newsletters…if you follow news about clients, industries or companies…if you run marketing, PR, fundraising or political
campaigns…well, BlogBridge could really make your life a lot easier.

Blogbridge lets you to stay up to-the-minute on what you need to know–whether that’s the latest in proteomics, aerospace, encryption, ebay auctions, celebrity gossip, movie deals, or stock prices. If you need to follow specific topics in computer sciece or law, or trends in art or real estate..if you are a collector or if you run a retail business…if you teach a class, engage in research, train employees, or provide professional services, then Blogbridge can help you stay on top of your discipline and interests and actually give you a competitive advantage.

If you aren’t using Blogbridge now, consider the fact some of your competitors probably are.

So save yourself a few headaches. Get all those emails updates out of your inbox and into a feed reader. News and information is increasingly shared through RSS feeds so why not use a terrific aggregator that will grow with your information needs–no matter what computer or operating system you have now or plan to switch to, one that holds on to your collection of feeds and gives you access wherever you are, whatever computer you use.

Blogbridge gets more powerful and interesting with our regular updates. And best of
all? Blogbridge is free!

Congratulations to our friends at Grazr! I heard from Adam (Green) that yesterday Grazr.com announced that they had received a round of financing, and at the same time that they were announcing the availability of Grazr 1.1. Those guys are doing some really interesting work, you should go check them out.

Easy interoperability with BlogBridge too. Take a look at the Grazr widget below. It is a nice display and navigator for (in this example) the Expert Guide on Negotiation that we announced yesterday. It took me like 1 minute to do that. Sweet!

To learn more about Feed Library, here’s a podcast done by Adam Green on his new Feedonomics (clever name eh?) blog.

It’s a high level introduction to Feed Library with some discussion of the roadmap as well.

By the way, Adam previously wrote on the DarwinianWeb blog, which always was interesting, so expect more good stuff from Adam in this new blog.

Technorati Tags: adamgreen, blogbridge, blogbridgelibrary, OPML, podcast

This is just cute. I used a SmartFeed in BlogBridge to collect images from a few Feeds that have daily newspaper comics giving me a personalized Comics feed:

Notice that the feed includes comics from both Dilbert and Peanuts, clearly coming from two different places. Here’s the SmartFeed setting to produce a Personal Comic Feed. Very simple. But I thought it was cute:

Technorati Tags: comics, cool, smartfeeds

Doug Levin is the CEO of Black Duck Software (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/)
best known as the guys who will help make sure that your use of Open Source software is consistent with the licensing. We are that he has joined our illustrious BlogBridge Topic Experts.

Doug’s own blog is called Blougtopia, where he talks about Open Source Software (OSS) and software development in general; software business models and licenses (such as the GNU General Public License - GPL); entrepreneurship and ventures, what it’s like to be a software or VC-backed CEO, leadership and innovation, Black Duck Software (when appropriate) as well as popular culture, economics and travel.

Here are Doug’s recommendations:

• Farber and Berlind: Between the Lines (weblog and feed).
  Extremely well written articles on many subjects but Berlind’s stuff on OpenDoc is great.


• Nat Friedman’s Blog (weblog and feed).
  Sometimes magically delicious, brainy reading from the former Ximian, now VP at Novell.


• James Governor [Redmonk] (weblog and feed).
  Good topical stuff. Read with Orady.


• Sam Hiser (weblog and feed).
  Good OpenDoc coverage but other stuff is good as well.


• Larry Lessig’s Blog (weblog and feed).
  The Godhead of commentary on the free movement and OSS.


• Stephen Orady [Redmonk] (weblog and feed).
  Solid topical stuff. Read with Governor.


• Bob Sutor (weblog and feed).
  Interesting reading on open standards and open source from a true-blue IBMer.


• Stephen Walli (weblog and feed).
  Various musings from the developer of WIX, a former MSFTer and current a systems integrator in the Open Source arena.


• Groklaw (weblog and feed).
  Important source of legal and other info related to Open Source Software.


• FSF Blogs (weblog and feed).
  See in particular Richard Stallman’s blog.


• Open Sourcery: The Open Source Blog (weblog and feed).
  Eclectic tech-musings.


• O’Reilly’s General Blogs (weblog and feed).
  Eclectic tech-musings.

As usual, this new set of feeds is already on our list of recommended starting points (collections) under the name Open Source, so that it can be immediately imported into your BlogBridge.

Don’t waste your time, obey our experts!

A Guide is simply a collection of Feeds which have been grouped together for your convenience. Generally all the Feeds in a Guide are related in one way or another. They might all be comics, or all be about Politics, or be about Nuclear Physics. You are always looking at the Feeds of the current Guide, which is the one who is clicked or selected in the Guide Panel. Many operations apply to a whole Guide, for example, you can delete a Guide, create a Guide, import a Guide, mark all the articles in a Guide as being read, etc.