An Entirely Other Day

I'm Blogging This (Where You Can't See It, Ha Ha Ha)

nobody@vox.com(Greg Knauss) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:24:17 -0700

Because the blogosphere isn't paranoid enough.

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Keeping Up With the Neighbors

nobody@vox.com(Greg Knauss) — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:25:34 -0700

Reading through my Neighborhood, I find I'm much more likely to comment on posts than I am, say, using a feed reader. I don't know if it's because the experience is richer -- the comment link is immediately available, the layout is easier on the eyes -- or because (for Friended posts, anyway) I know that Google isn't going to cache some half-assed, off-hand comment from now until the heat-death of the universe.

I wonder if it's going to stay that way when ~~Vox gets feeds~~ I start using the feeds.

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Vox Talks

nobody@vox.com(Greg Knauss) — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:30:08 -0700

You know what I'd like to see? Vox developers telling war stories. This project has obviously been a huge undertaking, and to hear the people involved say what went right, what went wrong and what they'd do differently would not only be entertaining, but hugely educational. I'm about to start a huge Web project at work (and it will include all the social/AJAXy hoo-ha that everybody's come to expect) and I'd like to hear about which roads are dead ends and which head straight off cliffs.

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Thinking Outside the Vox

nobody@vox.com(Greg Knauss) — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:57:40 -0700

So I've been playing with Vox for a couple of days now and am very impressed: there's an enormous, robust feature-set underneath a comfortable (though sometimes still a little confusing) interface. I like the social features a lot and the app-like editing is a huge step forward. The idea that someone else now has to worry about server uptime and spam prevention is also very appealing.

But... I've already got a blog. It's got hundreds and hundreds of posts on it. Do I abandon it and move to Vox? What happens to my existing archives? Or do I give up on the features I suddenly like and stay with the old system? Vox doesn't have plug-ins, but do I really need that flexibility?

I could split my time between the two systems -- one for, say, kid stories and the other for all the other crap -- but that kind of distinction should really be handled by categories. Using two systems works against the centralization that is often the only way to keep up. If I were just starting out, there'd be no question, but I'm dragging a decade of history behind me like an anchor.

Where do I go from here?

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