Vox

Check out my Vox site. Vox is a new service from the great team Six Apart. I was invited to ‘preview’ Vox because I am a TypePad customer. Vox is definitely aimed squarely at MySpace since it performs pretty much the same function, aggregating all my online life be it blog posts, photos, music, movies, etc. The big difference is that Vox does it in much slicker, much more integrated, and less ad intrusive ways.

If 6A continues improving Vox I’ll definitely consider switching from TypePad to Vox. Now where is that feedback button on Vox so I can request a TypePad import functionality…

Technorati Tags: blogging, MySpace, 6A, Vox

June 21, 2006 1

Embedded Journalism

Normally I don’t discuss anything politics related here. But I can’t help but have to mention this great blog by a photographer/journalist who had been embedded with the US Army in Mosul, Iraq since beginning of this year.

Go read his entries, most of them are long but well worth the time, and see the side of the story in Iraq that you won’t normally get from the mass US media.

I started reading this blog when someone in the office emailed me about a journalist who, when shot at, picked up the rifle and shot back. It was an griping post but what has kept me going back is the story of the war as seen from the ground and how much we are not told by the media. No surprise there.

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October 7, 2005 0

Pretentious? As if!

preÂ·tenÂ·tious adj.

Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.

Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy.

– from dictionary.reference.com

I’ve always thought pretentiousness derives from behaviour, not intellectualism. So I was surprised that my down-to-earth wife has turned pretentious. I don’t think so unless I have turned too.

September 9, 2005

TypePad "New" Feature

Finally I can select the photo albums that I want to display in my TypePad blog sidebar, thanks to my buddy Nick. This is one of my biggest complaint about the “media” features of TypePad, along with the inability to allow comments on photos, etc. Unfortunately, this new feature comes about 5 weeks too late as I am done with waiting and moved on to Flickr already.

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