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Organized online?? Here's my system:
Facebook is where my friends are.
LinkedIn is where business contacts are
TypePad is where I follow top bloggers
Twitter is nice to follow media companies that push our their stories & clever people
MySpace is where an old account that I don't use is.
Yahoo! is where I track personal email, business news, stock tracking and big huge portal ad innovation.
With so much information on the Web, how do you stay organized online?
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 weirdest thing... i can not see friends for years and years and when I do one of the first things they ask me is often "do your parents still live in Hinton Parva?" The strange name of this sleepy hamlet in the Wiltshire countryside, for some reason, remains with people long after they have forgotten even my name.
For me there were two wonderful things about Hinton Parva growing up. One was the orchard and stream (creek) that ran through the massive garden we had out back. The other was the Eames family. Becky Eames was the light of my life every weekend and later, after we were both sent to boarding school, every school holiday. Becky was great for a number of reasons. Of course, she was fun to hang out with and all that but she also had the Barbie house, that try (whine) as I may I never got my parents to buy me. She also had a Ken AND the car (or may be the horse and carriage - I forget) Anyway, it was totally awesome.
We met when we were 6. I was twice the size and twice as bossy as I am even today. She had an older brother called Chris, who was also good for filling the roles in the plays we put on and making even our most outrageous plans a reality. Without Chris we never would have made it to Glastonbury age 16 for instance, for which I will always be grateful.
Then her parents separated. They moved away from the village and my contact with her waned while I focussed on myself for about 10 years. My news of her grew more and more scarce until I was reliant on news of her via her mother's Christmas cards to my mother. She had got married and had two children while I was away at university,
Coming to SF, reduced the focus I had on my social life before but it also forced me to take stock and review the friends I had. I had thought about Becky often for over 12 years and always on her birthday on 2nd April every year. I had not been in touch thinking may be too much time had elapsed. One night I resolved to find her. I trudged through facebook profiles and endless web pages, not knowing her married name. Then suddenly I found her: a picture of her with her two beautiful boys and I sent her a message, not knowing what I would get in return, if anything.
Weeks past and then suddenly there was a lovely message from my good friend Becky. We agreed to meet for tea. On my latest trip back to the UK my mum and I went to see her and her family. There she was, beautiful, confident, responsible, and calm, with her two children, one who was the age we were when we met. it was so wonderful to see her. Really a highlight to my trip and one I hope to repeat. Wondering who I should look up next,,,,
So, my last post was about the pace of life in Iowa. Of course there are ways to take it up a notch. Jake's father Gregg, for example, takes the shells of seemingly ordinary cars and fits them with engines that are usually reserved for rocket launches. Then he takes them out of hearing range of the dopey local cops, revs them until your vision blurs and your eardrums implode and then sets it into gear leaving half the tires on the road behind him. "That's what I do for fun" he says with a mischievous grin on his face as I nurse my whiplashed neck.
When they are not on the road they on on the water. The Mississippi is the water equivalent of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. If you are going to drive your boat fast this would be a great place to do it! The Hawleys kindly took me on a more sedate trip on their fishing boat.
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