Budd's Alternate Reality

Have you noticed they haven't updated the question fo the day.  How much work does that take.  Keep it going Vox. 

http://voxdiaspora.wordpress.com/

go and add a comment to be added to the blog roll. 

with microsoft live writer you can post to TP, WP, and blogger.  I have used it to post the same thing on all three venues and it works equally well in each.  of course, then your comments will not be consolidated and your friends would be spread out. 

It looks like a majority of the people out there are going with word press over type pad. 
I want to know why you went where you went.  Was it to stay away from Six Apart or did you like wordpress better.  I mean they both suck compared to vox, but. . .

I think now is a good time to clean up my neighborhood on vox.  

If you want to give blogger a try or have a blogger account already and you want to import stuff to it, you can export from wordpress once you convert and then convert it using this site.  Once it is converted you are all set.  it looks like the pictures just get linked from wordpress and the book covers, video, audio are linked to vox and will go away when vox does.  The conversion site says it can only handle small blogs of 1mb but mine was 4 and it handled it fine.  If you have a problem you can do it in chunks as WP lets you export by date, tag, etc.  Hope this helps someone,  Happy moving.  

I was a member since 06.30.06.  MainMor invited me into the vox world.

Back then it was awesome.  When it went live the community grew and the whole site had great promise.  I loved the functionality of the site.  I moved from a blogger account and basically abandoned the friends I had there to come to Vox.  Only one person followed me over. 

Since I have been on Vox I have posted 567 posts.  I pretty much took a lot of time off for a while and only recently came back.  Vox was having trouble and the community wasn't as strong.  People were leaving in droves.  I only recently came back and now this.  I guess it was a sign when blogger got better functionality than vox. 

My stats on Vox
posts 567
comments 1800+
1 vox meetup
4+years
lots of friends

If you want to find me
I am on facebook
I have my science fiction blog at http://www.scifimedia.blogspot.com
I have another blogger blog at http://www.myalternatereality.blogspot.com
I have ported all my posts and comments to a wordpress account at http://buddblack.wordpress.com/ I may play with it some, not sure. 
I also have a weekly column on Practicalblackbelt.com

Come on Vox!  Spam has gotten completely out of hand.  It sucks having to go through and delete messages individually and having no way of reporting the spammer.  Does Vox just let them spam to their hearts content.  They have all but ruined groups.  Sure, I could hide my writing to only my neighborhood or my friends, but I shouldn't have to. 

Since I made my back here, I have noticed that I wasn't the only person that left.  A few years ago Vox was growing by leaps and bounds.  The community was really strong here.  Now, it seems as it is much smaller.  There are still smaller communities within vox, but the general Vox community has degraded. 

I finished my most recent book and wasn't sure what I would pick off of my shelf read next.  I have a shelf of books that I am trying to get through.  I bought the books at various times and have always preempted them with other books.  I am trying not to request books from the library or buy anything until I finish the shelf (exceptions of course for book club books and amazing deals like the copy of Spook County that I picked up a Big Lots for $3.  But I plan on going ot a William Gibson reading this month and will take that and maybe a couple of others to get signed).

With my mind drawing a blank and wanting to read some of the more recent additions as opposed to some books that had been collecting dust for a while, I decided to use the only truly random method; a child.  I called my daughter over and asked her which one I should read next.  She picked Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.  I have read only one other book by MZB and it was a Darkover novel that I didn't care for.  So, I wasn't looking forward to it.  I pulled it down and it was sooooooo heavy.  It comes in at about 900 pages. 

Thanks a lot, Ashli.  Guess I had to read it sometime. 

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