Category: thoughts

It's been said that what makes life enjoyable is not about what you do, but who you do it with.

That definitely applies to blogging, and Vox is an ideal blogging companion. It's mobile, discreet, and hip to what's going on. Well, that's what I think, at least. I've been blogging with Vox for a couple weeks and here are my thoughts.

Mobile enabled
We live in a hyper-mediated world, and it's all too easy to get lost in the din of all the …. stuff that you come across online.

I want my blog to be able what I'm thinking and feeling, and not just a constant reaction to the never ending stimuli of the Internet.  So, somewhat ironically, my best blogging is done when I'm away from the glare of the computer screen.  Typically I'm on a bus, out for a walk, or at a cafe. It's in the quiet moments that I have my best ideas. And Vox is right there with me, on my phone, ready to capture those ideas and post them.

Posting to Vox via my phone has made my blogging simpler and easier, more meaning and more original.

And
it's changed my daily journeys, made them into adventures. Now I'm
always on the lookout to capture a quick glimpse, a pleasing angle.

Click, tag, post. Upload.

Discretion
Mobile blogging is what sold me on Vox, but it's the easy and sensible access controls are why I stay. I'm not a an A list blogger, nor do I care to be. I just want a easy way to share with my very small audience what's going on in my life. So what's public on my blog is brief and vague, and what's private… stays that way.

I don't know if you feel this way–but I get a little sick when I see personal dramas writ-large on blogs. It's just not my style. Myself, I'd rather not broadcast to the whole world what is really just between me and my frends. So I appreciate the way Vox makes it possible–for introverts and extroverts alike, to blog their way.

Story builder
Last but not least, Vox is great at show and tell. I can look up books, music, YouTube, and photos, and add them to my blog posts with just a few clicks. It takes the chore out of blogging and leaves me free to do the fun stuff. It seems like such a simple feature, but who else has it? And frankly, this is the kind of stuff I want to do on my blog–take the building blocks of life (my photos, books, movies, and ideas) and weave a story.

I think that's the difference. Other blog systems I've used are not as friendly. Vox is just more fun.

And as I set out to blog on my everyday adventures, that's the kind of friend that I want to come along.