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.
When Lydia was 1, she had double ear infections and a fever that wouldn't break. After Doctor E was unable to prescribe a medicine to combat this "virus", he admitted her to the hospital in Andalusia. She stayed overnight in the hospital and was able to go home the next day.
When we walked into the Dr's office Sunday, October 25th, little did we know history would rear it's ugly head.
Lydia had gone to bed that Saturday complaining of a headache. (Since she and Trinity had just finished playing hard, I felt this was the possible cause for it.) I allowed Lydia to sleep in our bed that night and at 4:00 AM I awoke to "Mommy I don't feel good and I need some medicine". She then proceeded to throw up, but this time it was different than in the past. So, I decided we'd go ahead and take her to the dr on Sunday that she couldn't wait for Monday to go. A friend from church went with me to take her and after 5 minutes of sitting in the waiting area, were called back to see Dr. Smith. (For those of you with small children, you know the wait at the dr's office is usually torturingly long!) Almost immediately coming in, Dr. Smith began to examine Lydia and soon after, we were told we were to go to the hospital for further testing for meningitis.
I began to cry and heard nothing else after this possible diagnosis! How could my baby have gotten it and were we going to loose her? As these and other questions passed in my mind, I still felt that motherly instinct to try and be strong for my baby girl. We loaded up and headed over to the hospital, where two more friends showed up and walked with us to the pediatric floor. Those ladies will NEVER know the impact they had on our family by staying with us, not only as Lydia was enduring her spinal tap, but they also took the bull by the horn and loved on Trinity while we were at the hospital with Lydia. The dr soon called that afternoon to give us Lydia's White Blood Cell count, which was 20,000 and 150 in her spinal fluid! The normal level is 6,000 to 10,000 and 6 in her spinal fluid.
We stayed in the hospital for a total of 2 1/2 days. The flood of calls, prayers and gifts was humbling. One of the things that I would do when I came home is to check Facebook and supply updates on our situation. The number of well wishes and prayers was MIND BLOWING! We know that Lydia was healed by God because of how serious her condition was and to walk out of the hospital two days later singing and dancing is nothing short of supernatural intervention. I remember telling the nurse my belief in the power of prayer and that God honored that profession is awesome.
We found out that Wednesday Lydia had viral meningitis and the virus was the enterovirus. Through this experience we've learned the hard lesson of the power of the common cold and not to take it lightly. But also, the power of prayer and how when two or more gather together not even Satan himself can stand in the way!
Now, you might be wondering about the title and what is listening ears? Listening ears = stethoscope, thermometer = self explanatory, tigers = Lydia's hospital gown had tigers on it and benedryl because they had to knock her out Monday night. Her medicine was making her hyper and she was singing and dancing in the middle of her hospital room. The nurse and Doctor Evans were more than happy to help out!
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.
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
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.
So sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy
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