3 posts tagged “blogs”
I thought I wouldn't just give my blog love to my creamy new Vox account but spread it around, so I posted a few new things over at Metroblogging Vancouver. Metroblogging Vancouver is the city blog for Vancouver, and has a really strong collection of local bloggers posting there. I post there as well and have since the site launched.
I wrote a bit about the HSBC Celebration of Lights [mbv] and about the upcoming Science Fiction convention being held in Richmond at the start of August [mbv]. I even recently posted an offer to any Vancouver blogger who wanted an invite to Vox since I have an extra one [mbv]. I have yet to be taken up on the offer.
There's a few new posts in the waiting line so keep heading over to Metroblogging Vancouver for all the latest information on Vancouver life from not only me, but other Vancouver bloggers as well.
I got sent a new Nokia 6682 phone as part of a marketing program that's trying to get the phone in the hands of bloggers in both Toronto [mbt] and Vancouver [mbv]. The hope on the part of the marketing company in charge of the program is that I'll use it and blog about it.
I got it last night and started to charge it. Today I've loaded on Nokia's Lifeblog software [nok] which I guess will help me organize photos and notes on the phone, though it won't sync with my Macbook. I then loaded ShoZu [sz] on it to let it easily load my photos to my Flickr account.
My only complaint, aside from the lack of Mac compatibility, is that it's not got a full keyboard which would make mobile blogging so much easier. Posting from my BlackBerry is simple, even though I can't add photos, with the Nokia 6682 I'll be able to add photos but typing is going to be annoying. Still it'll be a nice portable video camera / camera that will let me take it out on the town. I'll be blogging more about it in the future.
I'm trying out a new blogging service called Vox that's designed by the people who host my regular blog. It's sort of a much more Web 2.0 feature rich enviroment, with a lot more options for interacting with other users. From the looks of it Vox combines a lot of the stuff that makes LiveJournal popular, like having friends' blogs easily linked to yours, and some really nice intergration with Flickr and YouTube.
This is the first post on my new creamy Vox blog [jks], but I'm cross-posting it onto my regular blog at jefferysimpson.com. I'll be playing with the service for a bit, but anything of interest will be cross-posted at both places so if you're just wanting to check one place the place to check will remain the main site.
Over at Metroblogging Vancouver [mbv] I've offered one of the invites that I got with my account up to any Vancouver based blogger whose looking for a new service. I'll offer my other invite up here, anyone of my regular readers who wants to pick up a new blog or switch service drop me a line. I'd try to get Lydia to join since it's got some neat features that would let me keep track of when she blogs, but she was just yesterday talking about how she never blogs anymore, so I figure I'll leave it open to someone else.
Unless you want to switch from Blogger or Blogspot or whatever it is dear.
