Blogging

Another Free Blogging Service

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The Typepad folks, yes the same ones that also provide Movable Type and Live Journal are now offering a free service called Vox. There is also another entry page with a different presentation:

Vox is a free blogging service that lets you share stories, photos, and videos about your life — in privacy with friends and family, or openly with the world. It’s easy, fun, and works well with the other web things you do.
Create your own blog:

1 Choose from over 100 designs — from landscapes to pets to cycling.
2 Write about what interests you. Add mobile phone pics, images from your computer, books from Amazon, video from YouTube and iFilm, photos from Flickr and PhotoBucket, and more.
3 Post photos of your favorite things — they’re automatically collected for you.
4 See what your friends and family are up to.
5Control who can see your content — friends, family, or the world.

Hmmm, two thoughts. First, Blogger seems to have a pretty big lead in this space but some good competition should advance the state of the art. Second, how much will this service cannibalize six apart’s for fee services?

Via Alex Tabarrak.

Need to Avoid Blogging?

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Mrs Modulator found a wikiHow article on her Google homepage that provides some advice on dissuading oneself from blogging. Most of the article’s suggestions fit, well, they fit those they fit. That is, if you are going to follow them you are not going to blog and probably didn’t really want to.
There is one suggestion that we all should pay a bit of attention to whenever we start an activity or project:

Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog.

Be it blogging, Go, a treehouse, or any other project or pastime you are going to trade off some other activity. Make sure you trade off the right ones.

Need to remove a hickey? Or advise someone about hickey removal? Here’s the wikiHow article.

Your Blog: Between Covers

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Does your blog have a consistent theme? Do you write well? Do you think your blog has the makings of a book?
If you answered yes to one or more of the above then a publisher may be looking for you:

Publishing types have continued toiling away in the industry’s underground laboratory, feverishly trying to alchemize blogging, hoping to prove that the common base metal of user-generated-content that the kids seem to enjoy so much (you know, those “web logs”) can be turned into the gold of bestsellerdom (you know, real books, sold in large numbers).

Michael Schaub, writing at BookSlut, puts a bit of perspective on this:

Basically, if you have a moderately uncrappy LiveJournal page, and are capable of writing a book proposal even slightly more elegant than “I am a blogger, and I want to write a book based on my blog, and blogs are great blog blog blog blog BLOGBLOGBLOG,” you need to find a way to get on board this gravy train before it crashes with tragicomic results.

What might be a big seller? Well so far adventures in the kitchen (54,000 copies) sell much better than adventures in Washington, DC bedrooms (14,000 copies).

No illusions here at Modulator…based on posts to date such publication wouold fall under the vanity, all is vanity category.