We like to keep a local focus on the Atlanta photographic community, but seeing that ACP Now! is a “photoblog“, I thought I’d provide a few quick links to other photoblogs that create original content worth reading. Some are extremely popular, others are hidden gems.

• If you like vintage cameras and printing techniques, check out
  silverbased.org.
• Peer inside the mind of a magazine photo editor at aphotoeditor.com.
• Magnum Photos has their own blog and a lot of good subscribeable content, including this post, which points to many fine resources.
• Heading East is run by Raul Guttierez from Brooklyn and keeps a wide-eye on the global photography scene.
• Conscientious is “quite” the heavyweight fine art photography blog, run by physicist Jorg Colberg.
• Strobist is a resource for DIY lighting solutions.
• ACP 9 lecturer Alec Soth had a pre-eminent artist’s blog that’s grown dusty (victim of its own popularity?) but the archives are still worth a looksee.
• I Heart Photography features daily updates of work across a wide spectrum.
• Mary Virginia Swanson, who gave a presentation during ACP 9 at MOCA GA, runs “Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson“.
• Flakphoto posts new work from a variety of sources, nearly every day.
• 5B4 takes a dedicated look at photobooks and photobooks only.

Linked out? There are plenty of photographers (some emerging, some emerged) who run their own blogs as well. Have a look at Amy Stein, Peter Baker, Richard Renaldi, David Alan Harvey, Liz Kuball, Olivier Laude, Andrew Heatherington, Todd Deutsch, Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette, Will Steacy, and Zoe Strauss.

Links to local photoblogs (and blogs of ACP participants) can always be found in the “Friends and Neighbors” section of the sidebar on the right. Feel free to list yours in the comments!

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The best way to keep track of news, blogs, and anything that’s happening online is via rss feeds. Feeds are files that let you know when they’ve been updated. Meaning, if you have an rss reader, you can quickly see when your favorite sites (like the ACP blog!) have been updated, without having to visit each and every site. RSS readers aggregate online content into a manageable environment.

Here are a few steps for keeping-up with rss feeds.

1. Choose a reader. In years past, I’ve used netvibes, bloglines, my yahoo, google homepage, and google reader. There are also standalone programs that run on your machine, like NetNewsWire. They all do the same thing, in different ways. Currently, I prefer Google Reader.

2. Subscribe to your favorite feeds. Many news sites & blogs use this graphic () to indicate where their feeds live. Look for “subscribe” links as well. The idea is to copy the location (the url) of the rss feed into your preferred rss reader - to “subscribe” your reader to a particular rss feed.

Subscribe to ACP feeds: ACP Blog & ACP on flickr.

If you want to dive-into the world of photography blogs, Magnum Photos lists a selection here: “It’s a blog, blog world“. ACP 9 Lecture Series Speaker, Alec Soth has/had a very popular blog, and the archives are well worth reading.

3. Read your feeds. All rss readers operate under the same premise; that you want to see new posts. The trick to managing all of your feeds is to diligently “mark as read” items you don’t want to see anymore. Google Reader has keystroke commands for toggling through posts, which is useful.

4. Organize your feeds. Put your photography feeds in a folder, and your news feeds in a folder. This will save you time in the future, trust me.

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