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Corporate vs. personal blogging

You may have noticed that the rate of new posts in this blog has slowed down a little.  Most of it is simply due to the fact that I’m spending a hell of a lot of time working these days (a common joke with my buddy Phil is that we see more of each other during the week than of our wives), so I don’t have that much time to share certain things as when I was studying my masters.

Furthermore, most of the impulses and insights that I have nowadays are related to work, and as you may have noticed I don’t feel comfortable blogging about it externally unless its public, live and water under the bridge (a not-so-uncommon problem).  For that reason I have started a Nokia internal blog where I post my thoughts on services, devices, marketing and industry shifts as I see them happening.  If you also work for the company and would like to read it, tell me and I’ll send you the link).

This doesn’t mean that this blog will whither and die (on the contrary, I plan to give it more attention now that it has finally moved to its own server and I was able to clean all 800-plus entries), but that I’m still trying to evaluate what focus to give it.  Let’s see what it brings, and hope you want to continue reading.

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Roll call / Pase de lista

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For a long time I’ve wanted to know who my readers are, where do they come from and what kind of stories and insight you would like to read in this space, since I’ve so far only covered whatever crosses my mind (which can be quite varied when you look at the tags).

Whereas Google Analytics and inbound links can give me an idea, it’s of course more human (and the whole point of this blog) to have  a conversation with you, dear readers.  That said, let’s get started now that you don’t need to register to comment as it was in bloody Vox.

Durante mucho tiempo he querido saber quiénes son los que aquí visitan, de dónde vienen y qué tipo de historias o pensamientos les interesaría leer en este espacio, dado que hasta el momento sólo escribo sobre lo que se me ocurre (que puede ser bastante variado si uno checa las etiquetas).

Aún cuando tanto Google Analytics como las ligas entrantes me dan una idea aproximada, pienso que es más humano (y la razón de ser de este blog) tener una conversación con ustedes, queridos lectores.  Con esto, podemos empezar ahora que ustedes ya no tienen que registrarse para comentar como era con el Vox del carajo.

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This blog has moved, please update your bookmarks / feeds

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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. 😉

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Things I don’t like about Vox

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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…

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Public Service Announcement

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To all my dear readers:

This blog has moved over to Vox at http://chivacongelado.vox.com. Why? For a number of reasons.

  1. The interface is more user-friendly to post certain things such as video.
  2. It does look funkier (genkier a good friend would say).
  3. 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!