Move Over, Tommy!

You're a smart art reader—you eschew the idea that New York is the end-all and be-all of the art world, much less that the New York Times is its only or best herald. You look to outlets from across the nation for your daily dose of art criticism. At the same time, you're irritated by the sheer volume of entries that overtakes your RSS reader when you subscribe to feeds by media outlets. You appreciate, for example, anything Dan Savage writes, you read about that Zoo documentary that Charles Mudede wrote—but you're reading Slog for Jen Graves's posts. Twenty-nine out of the 30 or so posts that the Seattle Stranger writers put out in a day are of no use to you.

Enter Yahoo Pipes, one very neat new media tool. Last night I created a pipe that feeds to me only Graves's entries, and I think I can jigger it to deliver online versions of her print articles, too. Same for the Boston Globe and Exhibitionist. So easy, I can do it: this walkthrough video will tell you just about everything you need to know.