14 posts tagged “vox”

If we can take a silver lining out of today's outage, perhaps it is the recognition of how deeply woven into our lives Vox has become. When it was gone for seven hours we really felt it. 

What were you doing one year ago today?
Submitted by CassandraMorgan.

I looked at iCal while I was riding BART this morning, and a year ago apparently I was working on the Trizzle Project quite intensively. Also watching Veronica Mars and other Sunday night TV.

Also posting to Vox a lot:

http://djchall.vox.com/library/post/further-adventures-in-ajax.html
http://djchall.vox.com/library/post/what-not-to-name-your-band.html
http://djchall.vox.com/library/post/led-zeppelin-kicks-ass.html
http://djchall.vox.com/library/post/two-u2-albums.html

Today is the one year anniversary of my joining Vox. A year ago I was still doing IT contracting for Kimpton Hotels, job hunting and feeling a bit discouraged about it all. Then one morning I got to work quite early (we were doing a "swarm" which entails upgrading every single machine in a hotel) and saw the Vox alpha-test email, I was really excited–it was like the Comet alpha-test was my golden ticket to a new and special world. I didn't have time to act on the email since I was on the clock, but I did later that night and got in the next day. Being only semi-employed and eager for some distraction, I soon devoted myself to Voxing, testing it as intensively as I would had it actually been my job.

Read my first ever post

This was the first asset I ever added:

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

Elektra-belly

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I am fulfilling another one of my 2006 goals, which is to blog more. as you can see from my sidebar. I don't know that I can break my record from April 2006 (when I was unemployed) but still it looks to be my best month on Vox in quite a while. And this doesn't count all the posting I've been doing to djchall.com, and to the intranet blogs here at work. Too bad I can't create an aggregator blog that would collect all of my posts, both personal and professional, but there would probably be IP issues with that.

Vox-pwnage

So Vox is now open to the public. That's pretty epic. As one of the original alpha-testers, it's been an amazing experience to watch the iterative improvements and enhancements that have been made since when I first joined in early March. When I first joined, the only conduit was to Amazon, you couldn't post mp3s, there were only about twelve themes–but it was still functional enough to use, and the potential for greatness was obviously there. In the intervening six months we've seen that potential realized.

Kudos, Vox team, kudos.

Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What's stopping you?

Too busy debugging Vox feeds in My Yahoo!.

in the form of a feature called "Notes," according to TechCrunch:

The best thing about the new notes tool may be that users can syndicate the full contents of other blogs elsewhere onto their Facebook page and individual imported entries can be commented on in Facebook. Blog posts, or notes as the company prefers they are called, can be tagged and commented on. When notes posts are tagged with another user’s name that entry is delivered to the user in question. This is how Facebook photos work as well. Notes can also be posted by mobile phone. Privacy options in notes appear typical of the rest of the site. Users can view their friends’ notes from inside their notes dashboard.

This sounds interesting, and somewhat competitive to Vox.

.tiff gave an excellent presentation on Facebook earlier this summer as part of 6aUS's tech talk series. Based on that, and also conversations with my half-brother Andy, who attends Stanford and is a fairly heavy Facebook user, I decided that blogging would not be hugely successful on Facebook, since its users view the service as a supplement/facilitator to their social lives, not an arena in which to conduct it. However, the "Notes" feature may work in this context, since Facebook users could use it as an easy means to tell each other about music, funny videos, links, etc-something which is cumbersome to do in realspace, and can also facilitate additional social interaction once realspace interaction occurs. So Facebook's positioning of this new feature as "Notes" instead of "blogging" may be a result of their understanding of what their users are likely to do. 

We're going meta today: What questions would you'd like to see become QoTDs?

What was the first album you ever fell in love with? Not the first song, mind you, but the first completley album (LP, casette, CD, mp3s all with the same "Album" id3 tag) that you remember listening to all the way through and being incredibly psyched on? For bonus points, what was going on in your life at the time, and what significant events happened that you connect with that album?

I missed this in the 0.8 new features post. You can now tag other people's stuff. This is a big change in Vox.

The new version of Vox that was just released allows one to cross-post to Typepad. Now if Vox only supported cross-posting to one's Movable Type blog as well-that would be truly epic.