4 posts tagged “personal blog”
I have just transferred the content from my old personal blog to Vox, pretty much in its entirety (I left out a post about a technical issue with the old's blog's feed and an announcement about this Vox blog). A couple of the items are restricted to family and friends so if you are not one (or both) of those, you won't see absolutely everything but you will see most of the posts.
Included in the history are photos of our wedding (which you can see on Flickr), my wedding speech and loads more! Some of these posts even go back to before my career shift into private practice (although I was being pretty cryptic about it).
I have been debating moving my personal stuff here in its entirety and using this Vox blog as a personal blog. I have been doing that for the last few weeks or so and I think this is the perfect platform for a personal blog. I was going to use this blog to blog about Vox and social networking but I am pretty much doing that on chilibean.
So anyway, here is all that stuff about me. If you are a member of family or a friend who has stumbled across this page (either by accident or design - assuming there is a distinction) then drop me a line and I'll send you an invite (or if the service is open for registrations by then, just sign up and add me as a friend and/or family and I'll reciprocate).
I have been blogging for almost 2 years now (feels much longer) and I still get a kick out of the fact that you can come across someone's personal blog and step into his/her life for a moment in time and see what that blogger was feeling and experiencing at that point in time. These personal blogs become snapshots of people's lives and that really appeals to me.
I have a personal blog running on WordPress and I am considering moving it across to here. What I'd like to do it import my entries or somehow migrate the whole thing across without manually copying and pasting the entries to this blog. I don't suppose anyone knows how to do that?
A quick import tool would be great actually. Something that scans the other blog, perhaps grabs the feed and pulls all that content straight into the Vox blog could be pretty darn useful. Then I can stop using my existing WordPress blog, point the domain here and get on with my Vox blog in earnest.
My only big question is how much of my personal stuff I want to share online but then again, Vox does have the ability to restrict who can see what so in a way, Vox is a safer option than my unlisted WordPress blog ...
I was chatting to my cousin the other day about a blogging platform to use. He originally asked me about WordPress or Drupal with the intention of hosting the blog on server space he would rent each month. His initial idea was to set up a family blog where members of his family would post updates from time to time. He also wanted everyone to have a family email address. All of this sounded great in theory but when we started to consider whether his parents would contribute to the blog the odds were that they wouldn't. At the same time it seemed unlikely that they would make the switch across to a different email address so the need for a domain name became far less pressing.
So we were left with the desire for a blog that, at the very least, he and his brother could contribute to. At that point we considered WordPress.com (the free hosted version of WordPress) and Vox. The advantages of both are that both are free, and I believe more than one person can contribute either by being an author (in the case of WordPress.com) or by making submissions by email (in the case of Vox).
Of the two, I have come to believe that Vox is far superior as a personal blogging platform, primarily because of the ability of a Vox blogger to link in with a variety of multimedia both hosted on Vox servers as well as on other services. Both services have their limitations because they are hosted platforms and are likely funded by advertising revenue generated by visitors. This is particularly so in the case of Vox. You can see it in the form of ads on the side of the page and at the bottom and I suspect all the links to Amazon that are created when a blogger references a book, movie or music benefit Six Apart and help pay for the hosting.
It is this inability to freely customise the templates and underlying code of Vox and add advertising that benefit the blogger that make Vox far more appropriate as a personal blogging platform (which is the intention behind it) and not an income generating tool. No surprises there.
Bottom line is that Vox is an awesome personal blogging platform and while I am curious what the new version of Blogger will be like when it launches, I think Six Apart have really done an awesome job and I look forward when Vox becomes publicly available to see how it develops.
