Yay! ArtBuzz Is Live & I'm Happy Now!

Okay! After a good morning's work and an upgrade to TypePad Pro, you can now email an entry to your friends from a convenient litttle link in the footer of each post. No longer will you have to click the permalink, cut & paste the URL into your mail client, etc. The link will automatically send the right URL for the post above it. Yay!

Perhaps you never noticed you couldn't email a post. Maybe it never bothered you. But it was definitely driving me nuts, because I know that the handy little feature got quite a bit of use on my old blog.

It was also kind of a big deal because email plays a central roll in my other blog, ArtBuzz. The whole idea behind ArtBuzz is to pay a commission to anyone who finds me a buyer for artwork by, yes, exactly, emailing them a link to a post featuring art they might like! It seems like a good way to reward fans of my work, spread the word in general, and maybe even send enough money towards people who dig my work that they can send a little back and become proud art owners themselves.

Another feature I'm liking in Typepad is the ability to schedule posts. This means I can get a little ahead of the game with ArtBuzz and make sure that even if I pull an all nighter in the studio, there will be fresh art waiting for everyone in the morning. So, If you haven't checked it out yet, or you did but didn't see anything new, go give it a look again. I think it's finally living up to the beautiful, useful tool I envisioned it to be.