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So here's my problem with Vox. It wins incredible points for community building, and encouraging a regular amount of blogging from its users... but it falls apart for me because I'm a horrible at regular blogging.
Regular blogging in this case, is what blogging has become in the past few years. Many of the people I consider 'good' bloggers are quickly becoming something resembling journalists. Writing stories, cracking leads, actually becoming... interesting.
Of course, for me, the net result is when I think about blogging, I think that I need to be coherent, articulate, and informative. Well that just seems like WAY too much effort, so I'm going back to our roots. Back in the day blogging was things like links.net; a running train of thought, a log of someone's online web presence. It occurs to me that REALLY active online, just not here on Vox. There's a community here that I keep track of, and occasionally comment on, but I'm also on Flickr, and Twitter, and any number of different places. What I realised I needed, was a place to pull them all into one space.
Enter my Tumblog, no it's not always coherent, occasional cryptic, but it is strikes me as the perfect way to pull all my separate online lives into one by aggregating all my separate 'personal' RSS feeds into one site. Yes, I'm still going to occasionally use Vox, but I'm also going to use Del.icio.us, Flickr, Google notebook, Twitter, or any other number of things online, not one of them is a whole of who I am though. Tumblr may be as close as I get in this place though.
Regular blogging in this case, is what blogging has become in the past few years. Many of the people I consider 'good' bloggers are quickly becoming something resembling journalists. Writing stories, cracking leads, actually becoming... interesting.
Of course, for me, the net result is when I think about blogging, I think that I need to be coherent, articulate, and informative. Well that just seems like WAY too much effort, so I'm going back to our roots. Back in the day blogging was things like links.net; a running train of thought, a log of someone's online web presence. It occurs to me that REALLY active online, just not here on Vox. There's a community here that I keep track of, and occasionally comment on, but I'm also on Flickr, and Twitter, and any number of different places. What I realised I needed, was a place to pull them all into one space.
Enter my Tumblog, no it's not always coherent, occasional cryptic, but it is strikes me as the perfect way to pull all my separate online lives into one by aggregating all my separate 'personal' RSS feeds into one site. Yes, I'm still going to occasionally use Vox, but I'm also going to use Del.icio.us, Flickr, Google notebook, Twitter, or any other number of things online, not one of them is a whole of who I am though. Tumblr may be as close as I get in this place though.
