2 posts tagged “vox”
With Facebook's preexisting import features, that means my personal blogging bases are pretty well covered. Regardless of the flavor you prefer, you can now read my rambles on Vox, on LiveJournal, on Facebook or (my favorite) through RSS with the reader of your choosing.
This is technology (and the Internet) at its best -- empowering us with choices for how we receive (and send) information. If the medium is the message, what does it mean when each person gets to choose the medium? That may just be the great question of the Internet Age.
LiveJournal and Vox. Two great tastes that taste great together.
I was IMing with BlueDelt earlier this morning and commented that there's been a lot of activity lately in my neighborhood. (And I don't mean the cops showing up and busting the meth dealers.) It's really awesome to see blog posts and comments flying back and forth across the virtual commons, creating and continuing conversations.
As further evidence, I sort of use Leyna as my personal benchmark in Internet phenomena. I remember when she was steadfastly sticking with her Hotmail email address, even while the rest of us were jumping onboard the Gmail train. Eventually, however, she threw her hands up in the air and migrated to Gmail. (And I'm pretty sure she wouldn't go back to Hotmail now.)
So now that Leyna, after much cajoling and persistent nagging, has shifted her blogging over to Vox, I'm taking it as a sign that Vox is reaching critical mass among my friends. And with luck, it'll only keep growing -- yet, still have that personable, personal feel that I associate with Vox.
The question now is not whether Vox has potential -- it's whether it has the staying power of Gmail. Part of that depends on the website, but most of it falls on each of us. Will we keep blogging in the long-term? Will we eventually reach a point where we'll wonder what we'd do without it? And will we keep thinking [this is good]?
Whatever the answers, I look forward to the journey.
