I am the luckiest man alive and Sheryl is my precious treasure.
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.
Really? November? It's cold. It's dark. I'm stuck in a rut of stupid seasonal discontentment right now. I don't like the extreme cold, and I don't like the dark. Yes, it gets dark every night and I'm ok with that, but is daylight savings really necessary? I didn't enjoy the extra hour of sleep that some people may have. It frankly changed my schedule a bit and now I'm waking up at the buttcrack of dawn, before my alarm goes off, and it's just crap.
Ugh.
November does have good things that come with it... Thanksgiving is awesome. Gotta love to eat (not gain weight). Christmas is around the corner. The economy picks up a bit so hopefully that means more money in my pocket if we make good on sales. Plus, I am taking an actual "paid vacation" to go see my 'rents in Florida for New Year's. I'm very excited for that.
I love my parents.
The kids are super excited and are now desperate for the day when we'll go see their Floridian grandparents... They've even taken to crying because today is not the day, nor will tomorrow be. So we're taking it one day at a time, enjoying the time we have left of the year and hopefully it will be sunny and brisk in Jacksonville and it'll be a damned good time.
So let's make it through the month, and get on with the new year already!
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.
It seems there is a trend to retail at this point in the season. I have to work all of two more days this week and then I have the rest of the week off. Unfortunately, for me, I could use the much-needed break to concentrate a bit more on my studies, but I could use the money much more to maintain my living expenses. I love my job, but the slow season always seems to damper my feelings towards it. My availability is not open, I can only work specified hours according to my lifestyle and this easily poses a conflict of interest in how many hours they can schedule me for. We have a decent number of employees and even among the part-timers, they are all struggling for hours, too. The college students have it hardest of all. At least I'm taking online classes where I know I always have time for that.
My schedule seems to be getting busier now that my term at Kaplan has started. School for the kiddos, (Big J and Little J) and day care for Ms. Sephy make my days a bit more busy. This is not a bad thing. It tends to keep me on my toes.
I work full-time, although it seems a bit farfetched wit hthe hours I'm being scheduled for, but again, given the availability I have, it's understandable and I can't be mad. A bit frustrated, but not mad.
School now poses a new schedule change. Bedtimes are going to be more strict in order to get them into bed and give myself the peace of mind while studying, reading, or even just posting to the discussion boards in my courses. I love Kaplan though. It's an amazing school with so many different choices for education. It caters to my busy lifestyle which is all I could ever want.
So, I'll continue to keep my head up, walk forward and not look back because the future is too beautiful to keep my eyes away from turning away.
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
