4 posts tagged “blogging”

I don't post here very often anymore. It's not that I don't like it here, it's just that I've been busy elsewhere. It's not you, it's me. But don't be upset now. I have good news...

I blog fairly regularly over at Zoom In and rumor has it, that I am working on something at the other blog too. And then of course there's flickr and twitter. And Facebook, too. I'm everywhere but here, it seems.

So, when will I be back? Perhaps when there is a new season of Danish Lessons to present. The old ones are available on cd, by the way. Just dropped the price on those suckers, too. Guaranteed to make your mouth hurt (unless you're Danish). Until then...

Through iStockphoto, I have been drafted as a blogger over on the magnificent site, zoom-in. They asked me to blog about the life of a photographer, and I agreed. This is extremely exciting, and I hope everyone will join me on this journey.

Check out my intro-post and the rest of zoom-in.

Okay, so it's been a while and I've been posting a lot here on VOX (at the expense of my other blogs). I figured, I would give it a shot and see how I felt about it. The questions I am trying to answer are:

So, what do I post here? Mainly rants and rambles, I've noticed. Semi-short posts about whatever's on my mind, mixed with a little self-promotion and questions of the day. Compared to my blog on rasmusrasmussen.com, this is definitely lighter content. Over there, I try to post longer pieces with more wit and depth to them. More essayish than ranting. So, in that respect, VOX is a great supplement. Of course, some of the rants and rambles are things, I might've posted on my Danish blog, but that's a completely different audience, and there is that to take into account as well.

What do I get out of posting to VOX? Well, there's the immediate group of readers, that I don't really have to fight to get, namely all the iStock-people. We all know each other already, and seem to have joined VOX as a clan of our own. Having readers is always nice, of course, although VOX is not offering any kind of stats for us to measure how many visitors we actually have. In fact there are several things like that, that VOX is missing. Being used to WordPress and the many many possibilities that has to offer, I find VOX quite limiting in many respects. I realize that they are still only testing and will probably add a lot later, but for now, I feel bound by the site's limitations.

Will I still use it then? For now, yes. I hope that the group of readers here, may eventually become readers on my real blog, and in spite of the limitations, I find that VOX is excellent for stuff like promoting my music and keeping up on other people's lives, which is definitely part of the attraction.

In conclusion, I think VOX is perfect for any iStocker, who'd like to expand on the community features that iStockphoto already provides. And like MySpace, it's good for showing off your stuff, if you're a creative person. I might even suggest that the MySpace people I know, drop that place for this, which I think has a much better structure and more options. But would I recommend a change to this for my blogging friends, and have them give up their own domains on the process? I doubt it.

Like many others, I'm sure, I had a blog long before VOX opened its doors. And mine is proudly powered by WordPress, which I still think is the best software out there for setting up versatile, stable blogs. So, since this place is lacking RSS-integration, I went out looking for a crossposting plugin for WordPress. And I found one!

So, if you already have a WP-powered blog, but you still think VOX is kinda cool, you might want to give that a shot. I haven't actually tried it out yet, but I figured I'd spread the word anyway.