See you in 2010!
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.
Robert Forster has published a book, 'The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll'
The cover features my portrait of Robert, taken in 2008.
This is a very awesome thing.
www.blackincbooks.com/books/10-rules-rock-and-roll
www.robertforster.net
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
This morning when Gregory got up before the alarm, the sky was glowing orange. "Must be a bushfire", he said. But it was a duststorm. When he went down into the batcave (basement) to the car, it was covered in dust. He says when he put on the windscreen wipers to clean the windscreen, mud came out.
When I left the house, the sky was a glowing dirty white, like an old oyster shell. I walked to work in dusty wind, peering up buildings dissappearing into a chalky haze, and my eyes were full of grit all day. I could smell soil on my skin. Mid afternoon the sky cleared.
Michael's michael posted this on facebook. I love it.
On our walk tonight, a cool wind blew. Whe we walked up Mary street, the wind blew hard, but dissappeared when we turned up Foveaux. The little men were out on Fouveaux, digging up the road with diamond tipped drills and making a terrible noise. "I'd hate to be living here with this going on!" shouted Gregory. We walked up Fouveaux discussing how to sail against the wind by tacking and using the power of triangles.
Outside the youth shelter was parked an old stationwagon with an aboriginal dot painting on the side. We looked at it and remembered the chalk drawing that is usually somewhere on the ground outside the youth shelter. Sometimes it is really big, in different colours, with many decorations. Other times it is smaller. All this time I thought it was a turtle, with a sort of long neck. But the version on the car made it clear: Its a goanna. We discussed our love of goannas and lizards. Around the corner outside the youth shelter, the chalk drawing was closer to the driveway, and scuffed by shoes. Its neck seemed to have many rings around it, like an african lady. But it wasn't very easy to see tonight. Maybe goanna had been blown away by the wind.
Most of the dust was gone. Except in corners and cracks and grooves. The streets and surfaces had been blown clean. In front of the Citigate Sebel I found some golden dust in a crack and showed Gregory. Not that we needed that to see dust. Our balcony is covered in it. Including the load of clean knickers I hung out late last night.
They were coming next to last, but they have wond the last 9 out of 10 games or something. Tonights win puts them one game away from the final. So Gregory is mad with pride, and the streets outside are full of mad happy parramatians waving fan-hands and leaning on the horn. Foveaux is the last stage of the walk from the SCG down to Central Station and there were 30,000 fans at the game.
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