4 posts tagged “vox”

Cyndi's been singing the They Might Be Giants jingle for a while now, but it's decided to go ahead and infect my brain as well. In any case, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out the video. There could be worse things stuck in your head.

Cross-Posting to TypePad
Have a TypePad blog? Have a Vox blog? Want them to play together? Now, when you write a public post on Vox, you have the option of having an excerpt published to your TypePad blog. (source)

Well, it's not exactly what I was thinking about when the word "integration" came to mind, but I think it's a decent start. After some testing done by davextreme, what it the cross-posting does is just that, post your Vox entry into your TypePad account (in a similar way that Flickr allows you to blog your photos). What you're left with is two separate entries on each site, both handling comments individually (davextreme.vox.com and www.davextreme.com). He's opted to turn off his comments on the TypePad blog and redirect you to the Vox.

My first reaction is that this is more of a pseudo-integration solution, giving the appearance that two can be one, when really it's an easy way for two to be the same. Then again, I guess it goes back to what you're looking to get out of a post. Are you looking for commentary and discussion, or are you looking for people to read your ideas?

It's a question I ask myself and will continue to ask myself each time I post.

Hm... probably should go into some kind of e-mail that goes to someone who cares, but:

• Cascading comments: One of the things that makes LJ and forum interfaces so friendly to discussion is the fact that comments cascade. It helps us process various threads as they diverge, etc. and is one thing I tried to intergrate into kenjisan.com to no avail.
• Easier commenting interface: I'm sure this one is coming, but I like the "Composing" page so much, I want to see it everywhere I compose, comments included.
• More neighborhood categories: This one may be trickier. Right now, we have our choice of "friends" or "family." It would be nice to see neighborhood categories customizable, like AIM, so we can break down the friends category into specifics. While they're at it, it could work like G-mail labels, so a person can have more than one label/category attached to them.
• LJ integration: I think that this one is in the works as well, but I couldn't find a post about it. One thought would be for your LJ friends to work like another neighborhood category. Or at least LJ's RSS feeds can be brought into Vox in some user-friendly way. One hesitation that most people have from moving over is that LJ is already established, Vox is not.
• Preview feature: Self-explanitory. It's always nice to see what the post is going to look like before it goes live. Well, I suppose that's there in a way (publishing it to yourself, only) but that's a bit clunky.
• More Flickr integration: Would be nice to be able to post at least a link to a flickr set.
  

In response to: LJ is...

Granted, I haven't played around with this thing all that much yet, but based on what I've read and what people have told me (and my limited experience), Vox appears to be the next step in blogger evolution. We had LJ, now we have Vox. It's a little surprising then to see the paranoia that people seem to have when it comes to the Vox vs. LJ discussion.

What I loved so much about LJ was the community that it created. Frankly, I look at my friend's page more than at my own page, which is a very different story with kenjisan.com. Based on what I've seen and heard, Vox is very much like LJ in that respect.

Anyway, that's all I have to say for now. Yay for new forms of internet expression!