Hello, TypePad

My transition to TypePad is now complete. All entries before this one were originally posted to my previous blog. I have dutifully transferred all dates and times, but none of the comments. I had lots of good comments. I miss my comments.

Comments

[Kristen]

Congrats on the move- you have sidebars now!
Love reading your blog and insights on adverts.

I will miss you in my vox neighborhood!

[ed]

Why would you move to 'typepad'? How is it better? Curious.

[Alex Leonard]

Aye. I'm intrigued as to why you've moved over? I'll definitely add your feed into my reader.

What are you getting from typepad that wasn't on offer in vox? Customisation?

[Roger von Oech]

Tim: Congrats on your move.

Ed & Alex: I was one of those readers who visited Tim (BB) over at Vox and found his content to be delightful.

I think Vox is a good platform. The challenge is for those who are NOT members of the VOX community and wish to leave comments. I think almost of us would agree that comments are the life-blood of a good blog. Leaving comments on a VOX blog is challenging for non-VOXers, and often not worth the effort (my personal experience).

The blogosphere is a very big place. I think that many more people will discover and interact with Tim as a result of his moving to a more open publishing platform.

Best wishes to all!

[Alex Leonard]

Aye. That's a bit of a problem all right. I think it sounds like Vox are considering their options on that one.

I hope they open it up a little bit. I guess one of the problems they are worried about is the joys of comment spam... but I'm sure they could work a way around that for non-vox users.

Fecking spam.. bane of my life. We've had our web server knocked out a couple of times by spam floods. Bastards!

[Roger von Oech]

Alex: I've been blogging for about 8 months of TypePad and have received nearly 1,000 comments. I've only had to delete 2 of them as inappropriate, and 2 other TrackBacks as junk. That's pretty few, in my book.