5 posts tagged “vox”

The only message I get from this ad on my own blog is that Google thinks I'm too good for Vox!
But, Vox is selling Google the ad on my blog telling me I should be making money with my blog. Do you see my confusion? Does one lobe clapping in the forest make a sound?

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I very rarely spam people with email, but in the case of starting this blog, I did, and a few joined Vox.

Unless they join (OpenId notwithstanding) I cannot express the relationship between us.

Since Vox seems prepared to handle millions of accounts, and indeed encourages non-Voxers to join in order to comment, I submit this:

Allow a Voxer to invite people by arranging a stub blog associated with their email. An "activation link" guarantees that the email recipient can activate it with a single click. Also can timeout if not acted upon. Also perhaps mention OpenId support and if it allows them to bypass usual "per service per login" horribleness.

This is only a little more pushy than the mass invite email, and since you don't misuse the invite feature, I think Voxers would use this to encourage friends to read their blog; by enticing them with their-eyes-only posts and friends-only media for example.

As email grows less desirable, blogs and feeds and networks and forums can supplant it.

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Does a "person link" to Paxton allow him to edit this post?

Apparently not.

Or is it just a convenience for referring to a Vox member, and is no different from linking the name Paxton to the URL http://paxblog.vox.com?

Not quite. If you hover over the person link above, it shows you that Paxton is a Vox user and allows easy communication and relationship editing between the reader of this post and Paxton.

I initially thought it might mean that Paxton is a contributor or subject of discussion, or perhaps to allow collaboration / multi-authorship.

At the very least it could also be a way to incorporate commentary into a post, and attribute the contribution.

Think of it as the "Just-in-time-post-comment-becomes-post-contribution" feature.

Please comment if you have something to add to this idea in general, but disregard it's practicality or actuality, and keep in mind this is a larger question for all blogs that allow comments, not just those on Vox.

What would make commentary more useful? What sort of commentary do you want to encourage? Do you want less commentary? Do you welcome disagreements? 

Do you sometimes wish someone's "private message" were a comment, or vice-versa?

Philip Greenspun's comment moderation policy is interesting reading pertinent to questions posed here.