Vox remains one of the most interesting experiments in digital journalism , because it’s so very aggressive in stepping away from the “flow” of traditional print news, and into creating “stock” evergreen content for the site. Their latest experiment saw…
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Diversity makes for better journalism
Today was a good day. A hard and difficult day, to be sure, but a good day. Around teaching the Newspaper MA students, and a meeting with Jon and Ben about the Interactive MA, I was with the Financial Journalism…
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it
Don’t you hate it when somebody leading a journalism business slips into jargon? Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily does exactly that when quoted in a Quartz piece on why funding is piling into new journalism ventures: “Suddenly, the market for…
Vox: from blog platform to Ezra Klein's Project X
Remember when everyone talked about bloggers replacing the mainstream media? Watch this video: Yes, Ezra Klein, blogger turned journalist, is launching his new “explainer” site at vox.com – formerly the home of the deceased blogging platform Vox. From the ashes…
Lessons from the death of Vox
Last Thursday, I opened Safari, and found a death notice. Vox, a blogging platform I’ve used for four years, was on death row. At the end of this month, it dies. I used to love Vox. Up until mid-2008…
Six Apart Upgrades Vox
Six Apart have just updated Vox, their consumer blogging platform with a social networking bent. It’s notabley faster to use, and now you can embed any video, photo or audio you upload elsewhere, which is rather cool. For example,…
Six Apart on Future Blogging
I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble‘s very static video interview style (I don’t think he really takes advantage of the visual nature of the medium), but this interview with some folks from Six Apart is…
Testing Crossposting
Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox. …