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posted on 11/11/08
Blog and Portfolio
If you’re subscribed to the Pixelspread feed, I’m sure you’ve noticed that post frequency has gone down quite a bit. I’ve been thinking of ways to pick it back up again and I think I’ve got a pretty good answer. The more and more I use tumblr, the more I enjoy it as a blogging platform. I’ve run matt.cc (which I just recently renamed, previously tumbl.us) almost since tumblr began. My tumblr post frequency just keeps going up, while this textpattern blog seems to wane. So what to do?
Well I think I’m just going to switch the focus of Pixelspread. I’m going to be redesigning it shortly to focus on my portfolio/work section and start blogging at matt.cc instead. Once the Pixelspread redesign goes up, I’ll change the source of this Feedburner feed. So if you’re subscribed via RSS, you’ll still get all my posts, just from a different location. You won’t have to change the feed or resubscribe to anything.
Simply put, Pixelspread will remain as my portfolio and freelance design hub. Matt.cc will be where I blog. And they will be linked together, so it’s easy to find both. And as for the blog archives of pixelspread, I’ll make sure they stay in place at pixelspread.com/blog, so that you can also go back and read old posts. I’m just thinking of it as a little separation between business and personal. I think in the long run it will allow me the space I need for both pieces of my life.
Evan Byrne
posted on Feb 8, 03:44 PM
I just love the design of your site, so simplistic yet so catchy. If only you would move your tumbler posts over here instead of moving this over there…
Amerika Havayolları
posted on Apr 16, 03:44 AM
its the first that I visited your page,its looking nice
amber jewellery
posted on Jun 13, 04:56 PM
Hey! Don’t worry. I believe you can come back to form and keep up good work?!
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Cameron
posted on Nov 11, 03:38 PMHey Matt –
Have you seen Sweetcron? We were having very similar concerns as your post talks about. Basically, we decided to use Sweetcron as a business stream — aggregating content-rich rss from multiple Tumblr, Delicious, Flickr… feeds. Check it out here: http://ba21.us
My partner (the designer behind the Museum and Silo Tumblr themes) posts using Tumblr as I do to a Tumblr Group, which, using the Tumblr RSS + JSON api, we can grab all the rich content via tumblr. This is effectively a custom front-end to Tumblr.
The other challenge I had, was what to do with my 5 year old Textpattern blog. Well, after changing some RSS settings, I was able to grab 500 posts into Sweetcron, which is going to become my blog archives. The beauty here, is that the global tags that Sweetcron collects from every different feed, also works to import the Textpattern tags I created using the plugin.
Anyway, feel free to email me to discuss this more. We’d be open to releasing a Sweetcron Theme (specific for Flickr Portfolio + Tumblr integration, as our site).
Cheers,
Cameron