This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004).
This blog is one of the transitions for the new year. I've started it This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004).
This blog is one This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004
3:30 PM Saturday, November 25, 2006
[Video, more intimate, friend-friendly as it were.]
Whilst surfing the Laughing Squid blog a few weeks ago I came across an announcement of a new blogging service called Vox. (This was Laughing Squid's take on it). Since I do the Coffeeblog with Tinderbox on my own computer, I was initially underwhelmed. However, there was a lot of high local geek power behind Vox, so I decided to check it out anyhow, and I'm damn glad I did. Vox, in addition to being a friend-to-friend blog service like its older sister, Live Journal, from the Six Apart folks who also do Movable Type, it has some very cool stuff, specifically audio (is that why they call it Vox, Latin for "voice"?) and video. Yeah, there's YouTube, of course, but Vox is more intimate, friend-friendly as it were. So I joined Vox.
Vox is an excellent companion for my mobile phone, which was featured in my last Coffeeblog post. The Sony-Ericsson candybar model W6001 not only makes phone calls, it sends text messages, captures and uploads photos, and captures and uploads video. In fact, it can make little audio recordings and email them or upload them to sites, like Vox. Therefore, I don't even need a computer to blog on Vox; I can do it all with my cellphone. And I can even find a place to show my little videos, should anyone lack better things to do than watch them. I was able to upload some cool, albeit low-res (very low-res) videos from the Laughing Squid Decade 2 Party.
No, Vox is not a Flickr killer or a YouTube killer or a Napster killer, but it's a great way to kill time while having fun. I'm looking forward to brewing some audio in Garageband using voice tracks from my laptop and posting it to Vox. There's also something called Books in Vox. I don't even know what that is yet: I'll have to check it out.
I have only two beefs (beeves?) about Vox at this point in time. I can't embed html or post html links. (Or maybe I can, but I just don't know how yet.) Secondly, I gotta use Firefox to compose a blogpost to Vox, and Safari is still my default browser. That may be due to a misplaced loyalty to Apple, misplaced because I had to send my iBook back to them four times to get it fixed, and when I sprang for an Intel MacBook, it had sharp edges. Nevertheless, it will be nice when I can use Safari to post to Vox. Meanwhile, I can use the ol' Sony-Ericsson.
More links: Vox Mobile SMS Garageband
More images: Vox SixApart
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