QotD: My Vox Name

Nov 2, 2006 at 7:51 AM
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How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.

Actually, I didn't choose my vox name. I was included in the 2nd round of invites during beta testing, I assume, because of my typepad presence which is negroplease.typepad.com. I've had the negroplease.com domain since February of 2002 and it's been my blog moniker ever since. Shhh, don't tell anybody but that domain and that blog are going to be retired and archived by the end of the year but that negroplease name will live on here.

NP is foreva!

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Why the retirement?!? Bigger and better things, or burn-out?

I think Negroplease.com: The Blog has run it's course. In January, the site will be 5 years old. I've done a ton of identity forming through that space and have written just an awful lot about who I am, what I think and why I think it. I've also said a pretty high standard for myself there and there is a lot of pressure when I sit in front of the computer to write on negroplease.com. I don't just have friends who read what I write there, I have an audience with expectations.

At this juncture in my life, I don't feel the need to be that naked or have a quite so public persona.

It's just time to close that chapter.

Well, thanks for keeping it up as long as you have. I, for one, have enjoyed it.

I just wanted to say that I was one of your faithful readers of negroplease. Your style and wit had me was as comfortable as an italian leather sofa. I also found vox becasue of your mention in a post (i've been looking for something else becasue I'm not strung on myspace like other junkies like my girlfriend is..). So i understand your frustation and pressure you feel when you sit in front of your computer for posting to negroplease. I feel/felt the same way whenever I wrote my newsletter to my friends which they in turn forwarded to other people and I had a lot of feedback on it. Which was both positive and negative. So thank you for all of the hardwork and dedication you put into negroplease.com: The Blog.

//I don't feel the need to be that naked or have a quite so public persona//

Does that mean you're going to close the curtain on all of us who've followed you from NP?

Nah, I'll still be posting pretty regularly here. I love VOX. I also have plans for the negroplease.com domain (and the jasontoney.com domain I've been sitting on for years) as a public facing site for myself.

At VOX, the privacy controls will help me maintain the anonymity I need while still getting the "write" out.

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