11 posts tagged “vox”
Having switched to the Scoble style of feed reading in Google Reader, I'm getting through way more of my feeds than I had been (no more Saturday "mark all as read" guilt sessions), so, now I'm wondering...what am I missing? What cha readin' kid?
Here are my current faves:
I keep seeing the Money Mark banner ad at the bottom of VOX pages and I received this album from some music pr nerd a few weeks ago and actually really dig so I figured it was worth a post.
Money Mark's solo work isn't anything flashy. It's just some stripped down folk music with some soul undercurrents. There's little hint of his ability to create wonderful bombast (He's one of the key architects of my favorite Beastie Boys' Album - "Check Your Head") but the solid song creation is here. It's also quite raw and honest. He's baring his soul here which is maybe why he doesn't feel the need to break out the synthesizer, fender rhodes, or drum machine.
What he's laid down is enough.
Negro Please: The Blog will be retired on or around January 22, 2007. Over the course of the next month I will be re-posting some of what I consider to be the best of my writing here. If you're still hankering to read my writing, you can do so at VOX. Fair warning: it's much different than my writing in this space.
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What I would do to you? I would grab you from behind, my arms wrapped across your stomach and pull you to me so that you would know I was there for you. There to stand with you, to hold you up. I would breathe on the back of your neck softly, kiss you gently...once.
The Wayback Machine: What I Would Do To You? by me, Negro Please, 12.23.06
What's on your holiday wish list?
I don't really have a personal wish list of things I want but I do have some things I want from VOX:
- a privacy toggle in the top nav of the compose window because by the time I've finished writing a post, I've forgetten that I wanted to limit access.
- user-generated privacy levels or additional privacy levels. I'd love one for "co-workers".
- allconsuming and last.fm interaction.
- increased amazon.com integration. Sometimes I want to post pictures of things, not just audio, video or books from there. Like games. I want to post about wii and ds crap.
- integration of my personal amazon.com associates ID.
- some kind of stat/traffic analysis and/or "who's linking here" kind of thing. I want to know when other voxers are talking about stuff I've posted.
- for the page to not refresh when comments are posted to audio or video posts. I'm always bummed when my comment ends the song I'm commenting on.
That's all.
Happy Holidays, Voxy!
Alright, damnit, all you holiday spirited voxers have gotten to me. I'm all icicle-y up in this piece.
Gee whiz, it's Christmas.
I invited my family to check out Vox.
Uhhhh...
Quick, everybody hide the hookers & blow.
It is intimate. For every item on Vox—a text paragraph, a photo, a link—bloggers can determine if it is to be public or private and, if it is private, exactly who can see it. Ms Trott, for instance, keeps one part of VoxTrott for communicating only with her mother, who has an insatiable appetite for information about certain minutiae of Ms Trott's life. She also has a daily “Yay Me Update” just for herself, in which she uploads self-portraits from her mobile phone in order to preserve a chronicle of her life for her descendants—uninterrupted except for that time when she gained a bit more weight than she cared to commit to memory and conveniently forgot to post for a few days.
- The Universal Diarist, The Economist, 11.23.06
Considering I've posted over 50 times on Vox this month (in even my most verbose Negro Please months, I don't think I got more than 20 posts live), it is no secret that I'm in love with Vox.
Just this week: my silly excitement over a new hobby got me on the front page; I've conversed with people as far away as Singapore; I've written personally -- intimately-- about my family and my personal thoughts with only a few people having access; I've shared music in ways that I haven't before; I've collected internet minutiae strictly for my own purposes; and, sweet cracker sandwich, I'm having fun blogging again.
Blogging hasn't been this fun in years for me.
There are improvements I'm hoping for in this service but that's for another post.
For today, I'll just say, "Yay Vox!!"
For all my LA peoples.
To a theme. There are lots of cute ones but I'm not sure if any one of them is quite me yet. I'm going to keep trying them on until I find one I truly truly like.
For Your Sunday Listening Pleasure:
