See you in 2010!
Because they love me!
This is the surprise that was waiting for me when I went up to get my Soy Mocha today.
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
i love the way the media is tap-dancing around the new standards for young woman and mammograms - and even self-exams. everyone (including normally rational women on national public radio affiliates) are wigging out. the doctors and researchers are struggling to articulate the issues, because the truth ain't pretty.
here are a few thoughts from my non-medically trained brain:
1. mammograms can CAUSE breast cancer. it's xray, folks. but we can't say THAT because then women who really need mammograms will be too afraid to get them. too many mammograms is not a good thing. one every other year or when you find something weird is OK. just like it's okay to have your chest x-rayed if you have pneumonia, but you shouldn't get annual chest xrays just to see how your ribcage looks.
2. self-exams (aka "early detection is key") don't really solve anything, because by the time you feel a real, genuine lump, you'd probably find it anyway without the shower guide. and the self-exams cause much hand-wringing and drama because the vast majority of weird boob related stuff ain't cancer.
3. (here's the kicker): CANCER GROWS TOO FAST IN YOUNG WOMEN TO BE CAUGHT BY A MAMMOGRAM. seriously, folks. with a pre-menopausal breast tumor, there's no time to waste. in my situation, the mammogram at 33 actually gave me a false sense of security. i had a completely clean mammogram in march 06, and a 4cm tumor by october 06.
now, if i had KNOWN i was brca1 positive in march 06, perhaps i wouldn't have assumed everything was okay. i didn't know, and i wasn't okay. but this post isn't about brca1 patents, it's about mammograms.
and everyone needs to chill the fuck out. if you have a family history, or if you have a really weird lump, they will let you have a mammogram! no one is banning young women from these important exams if warranted.
peace out.
p.s. i sincerely hope that this new revelation puts an end to the "feel your boobies" tshirt line and other pseudo-pornographic awareness campaigns.
that is all.
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.
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,
i accidentally flew delta last week. the whole fucking plane was pink. the flight attendants wore pink ribbon t-shirts, the fucking sky mall magazine was pink, the pilots wore pink ribbons, and they sold "pink lemonade" for 2 bucks a pop. pink pink pink pink. my tumor was black, black, black gray. i'm so sick of pink.
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.
