5 posts tagged “blogging”
This blog has moved to its own domain: www.chivacongelado.com , the new RSS feed being at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/chivacongelado . Why?
After starting in MySpace (of all places) almost 3 years ago, I moved the blog to Blogger to take advantage of better blogging functionality. In March 2007 it was migrated again to Vox so that I could use the more user-friendly interface available there besides being able to post from my mobile device at the time (or so I said at the time).
In reality, I found a pretty user interface, that made very simple to import and display content, but didn't allow for unregistered comments, trackbacks, statistics, widgets, counters, etc., so the conversation didn't grow the way I would have expected. To make matters worse, even though their import utilities are excellent their export tools don't exist, so my content was literally trapped. This, as you can imagine, made me a very frustrated user, especially since their customer service just ignored me.
With the help of a couple of friends I was finally able to free my content, and am now hosting in BlueHost (GoDaddy was out of the question after the cvander debacle).
Installing Wordpress was very, very easy and you are now privy to the
results. The old blog will remain in its old place, but will not be
updated from now on. There might still be a couple of tweaks to be done, but pretty much everything is in place now.
Welcome to my home in the web. Mi casa es su casa. ;-)
I have been here for almost three weeks, and won't move back to Blogger. However, there are a couple of thinks that I really don't like about Vox:
- No comments from unregistered members. Even though I understand that it is for privacy reasons, maybe the use of OpenID and some sort of comment moderation would be much more effective (and I would have my old readers commenting here; who knows, maybe they'd sign up too).
- No HTML/CSS editing. I cannot add anything else to the template than what I am allowed by the tools, so I cannot move my old counter, my visitor's map, my mybloglog community roll, nor my FD Flickr Badge... Argh!
I think this sums up in one phrase: not all my readers use Vox! And instead of making it easier for me to interact with them, I'm inside this walled garden and they are out. Not unlike some telco services I know of...
However, I still stand by my decision, as video/mobile posting and design in general are easy to use. The fact I can have private posts is also a plus, and those people have already joined. However, I'm still annoyed. I sent feedback to the Vox team, but I don't know if they listened. Ugghh...
To all my dear readers:
This blog has moved over to Vox at http://chivacongelado.vox.com. Why? For a number of reasons.
- The interface is more user-friendly to post certain things such as video.
- It does look funkier (genkier a good friend would say).
- I am able to post straight from my N93. No small matter given that most of the ideas that come here I write down to my mobile device anyway, as I don't always carry my PC.
Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds.
I'll leave all the previous posts in this blog, but it will no longer be updated. Thanks for the ride so far, I hope you come along to the next adventure!
I am using an RSS web reader service called bloglines to keep track of all the blogs and news sites I read. The big advantage is that it is very simple to use and add different feeds, besides not being tied to a single PC.
Interesting article from problogger.net. Will have to start working on that.
