First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.
So sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy
CAN I STILL THINK OF YOU AS A FRIEND IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA?
You wouldn't know this from the 6
O'clock news, but angry citizens including droves of Democratic
voters are turning out at Townhall meetings all over the United
States and demanding a stop to the ObamaCare government-run health
insurance initiative.
Obama's deputy chief of staff Jim
Messina in reaction to the country rejecting government run health
care:“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” They
are citizens from all walks of life – seniors to college students.
What happen to all those bumper
stickers motto's we saw on your Prius's “Dissent is the highest
form of patriotism.”
The ObamaCare bill is over a
thousand pages long - Congress hasn't even bothered to read it
before trying to ramrod it through.
Democrats on the Franking Commission banned Republicans from using the words “government run health care” in the communications to their constituents.
Nancy Pelosi said Nazi Swastikas are showing up at townhall meetings -this is an outright lie to minimize genuinely concerned citizens as a bunch of kooks.
Representative Brian Baird compared general citizens that protest Obama Care at townhall meetings across the USA to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. He also likened townhall attendees to the Nazi Brown Shirts. For those of you doomed to recreated and repeat history, the Brown Shirts were assassins Hitler used to systematically eliminated anyone who opposed his thirst for power. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only ones blocking the entrance lust for power that Obama and the Democrats have to control private citizen's lives by way of their cars, their banks and now the private matter of their health care and end of life decisions.
Meanwhile, Obama asked citizens to
turn in your parent, friends, family and neighbors if they originate
or forward emails of descent against ObamaCare. The email is
flag@whitehouse.gov if you want to turn me in. (for those of you
that have studied psychology, this is called “projecting” - the subconscious placement of fault on an innocent party from your own
fault. Ratting out your peers has been a part of every socialist,
communist and fascist party's rise to power. So much for freedom of speech you liberals were complaining was being violated so much during the Bush years. Imagine if President Bush had said all these kinds of things. Wouldn't the nation be burning to the ground by now?
If this doesn't scar the living crap out of you, then maybe this will:
As the Stimulus plan is continuing
to fail with continued job loss at the price tag of over 4 trillion and the taxing of about $40,000 on
your yet unborn grandchild, Obama and Congress says it will add trillions more
in taxes EVEN to the middle class payer. That Cash For Clunkers car program is working great... only cost another 2 billion from the first billion they projected. You don't think they'll be saying the same thing with ObamaCare?
Canadians under government run socialized medicine flock to the U.S. for care because the long waiting periods of treatment and for the rationing of health care. Many patients just end up dead as "acceptable losses" as a bureaucrats in their government determined other patients would benefit more long term with the limited resources they have. Government run health care (aka socialized medicine) discourages doctors from even practicing nor pharmaceutical companies from developing new medicines.
Can you name ANYTHING the government runs well INCLUDING Medicaid or the Veteran's Hospital? Why do you want to hand over you life and personal medical records to them then?
Through several years of my life
working in the movie industry, I made only about $12,000 a year, yet
I maintained a GREAT PPO that I bought privately. I've gone through 5
plans and am now 46 and still pay about $250/month for 2 adults. I
have never asked nor expected an employer to pay for this kind of
thing. What's all the hysteria about health care then?
FACTS:
No one is without health “care.”
Anyone can walk into an emergency room and get treated as I've seen
many illegals do here in California.
28.1% of people ages 18-24 just don't buy insurance because frankly they feel invincible at that age.
Nearly 40% of the uninsured population reside in households that earn $50,000 or more.
30% are illegal aliens.
14 million are already eligible for government paid health care and have not taken it.
Did you do the math? The majority of
18% you keep hearing about are those that CHOOSE NOT TOO buy health INSURANCE. (Next time you see your neighbor with the boat in the
driveway, the two cars and 4 bedroom house, and the daily $4.50 caramel latte in their hands, ask them why they are not
buying health insurance). Granted, there are those that cannot get
medical insurance because of pre-existing conditions. But does this
mean that we taxpayers should pay for the pre-existing conditions of
lack of food, clothing, gas, air conditioning, heat, or a lack of an
automobile by force of government ie. violence? Or do we continue to help out as all good Americans have always done through charity?
Do you think that other government types of history provided these things? Did they do it well? The answer is first yes and the second no. Communism always starts with socialism and you who continue to support this Democratic Party madness will be guilty of creating another mass killing machine of history.
