I always create blogs with the purpose of not using them. Yes, I do that. Some people have to eat from every single tray of free food they see, I open free blog accounts.
And like I said I never intend to really use them. I just like to have them in case I want to use them. If some day I get an idea or theme for one of them, I don’t have to look for a place cause I just have them, around like everywhere.
But then there are some places that are just screaming to be written in, and that’s where things get a little crazy. Some blogging sites are just too good and populated not to write in. Since I only had one journal back then it was easy to start putting stray thoughts somewhere else. It became clear since the first day what I was going to do there and with time it has only been better, they have only added tools that serve me better.
I had a phase in which I opened about 5 accounts on three days and those accounts are empty. Thank Jesus.
And then there’s Vox. When I discovered Vox it was beta and you had to ask to be in and wait until they gave you an account. Exclusive is always extremely attractive.
So I asked for an account and then waited. And then forgot that I was waiting.
I don’t remember how long it took but some months after I received my invitation to open a brand new nifty shiny account. I had seen some VOX blogs and they looked crispy and fresh but nothing prepared me for what I saw when I entered.
There in the updating page I had some of the most attractive options ever, I could upload pictures and videos and with a couple of clicks have them EXACTLY where I wanted in my posts. I could show my photos or hide them, just like the videos. Posting pictures from Flickr? Check. Photobucket? Check.
I could make collections of stuff. As it say on my first post it was finally, blogging with everything I needed. And then I realized I didn’t knew what to do with it, except one thing; it had to be in Spanish. I had been waiting for a place that was versatile where I could put my language to good use, I couldn’t make a blog in my mother tongue anywhere, it had to be a special place where it felt homey enough that even if Spanish wasn’t popular, I would feel at home. VOX did what no other blogging account had done before; it made it so that I felt welcome to have my long awaited blog in Spanish.
Groups are so well separated that the content can be perfectly controlled; family, friends, family AND friends, me only and of course the neighborhood. Not friends, not family but VOX people that like blogging as much as me, neighborhood. I like that word. Not only you can have that many groups, you can do this awesome trick where you can make a post public and have private pictures in it.
!!!!!
VOX announced this with an example of how if you went to a party and got trash you could post about how you went to a party and had a great time; public, and include pics about you and your friends puking in corners; FRIENDS ONLY. And that translates into so many other uses: mothers and fathers can post about how cute their baby is; public and include pictures of the first time the baby got the pamper out while sleeping and there was poop all around the crib! Very private. Employees could post about how much they loved their jobs and make it public and then include a photo of them making very vulgar signs with their hands titled: “I hate you Whomever!!”; very private!! It’s amazing.
So VOX was the blog that I didn’t knew what to do with, but it gave me so many tools that it made itself into one of my favorite blogging websites. I loooooooove it. It’s now a journal that I wanted and had been waiting for.
I just wanted to thank you VOX team por hacerme sentir en casa*.
*for making me feel at home.
Video: Show us some great animation.
Directo de la Habana. Buena!
Vamos a explicar aquí para beneficio de "a quien pueda interesar" que esto no es una página de Internet. Una página como muy bien explican aquí es un documento que contiene información específica de un tema en particular y que es almacenado en algún sistema de cómputo que se encuentre conectado a la red mundial de información denominada Internet, de tal forma que este documento pueda ser consultado por cualesquier persona que se conecte a esta red mundial de comunicaciones. Un Sitio Web es un conjunto de páginas Web relacionadas entre sí.
Entonces esto NO es una página de Internet, sino un espacio perteneciente a un sitio web. De las páginas de Internet no solo se posee la codificación en su totalidad, sino el dominio y el tráfico. Esos son términos web que no voy a explicar porque me aburro, pero bien son parte de la otra explicación así que ahí están.
Entonces; ¿Poseo yo una página de Internet? No, ninguna.
What's your favorite holiday movie?
Este año como siempre veremos Christmas Carol cuantas veces la den, en todas sus versiones, tan repetida como venga.
Dos post en un día, pero es que el día amerita!!
Viva el Rey que nos ha salvado!!
Lee está despierta solo porque Santa ya llegó.
Naughty or Nice?
Submitted by Red Pen.
Siempre, SIEMPRE nice Santa. Siempre nice.
What are your top 5 books of 2006?
No están en orden. Mi favorito de hecho sería el último, que por más que lea no se acaba.
Show us your winter wonderland.
Submitted by Nmbible.
Hecha de foam:
Este año han insistido en poner “nieve” por todas partes, no se cual es el propósito pero está bien, aceptamos la falsa.
Lee se puede dormir al ritmo de pleneras sin problemas.
Show us some holiday decorations.
El más importante es el nacimiento, en donde nació Jesús después de Acción de Gracias porque yo no lo quise guardar hasta el 25.
Pero el arbolito nos destruye.
What books did you love as a child?
Submitted by hearts.
Cuando pequeña leía libros de grande. Fue culpa de mi abuelo que tenía sus libros en un anaquelito en el piso y yo los alcanzaba. Así que mis libros favoritos eran El Diario de Anna Frank, Juan Salvador Gaviota y uno del cual olvidé el nombre (y carezco de deseos de ir a buscarlo ahora), un poemario de Jose Gautier Benitez que contiene el famoso “A Puerto Rico Ausencia”. Ese último lo leí por obligación; era color rojo con terciopelo y yo tenía cuatro años, TENIA que tocar cualquier cosa roja y con terciopelo.
Puerto
Rico, Patria mía,
la de los blancos almenares,
la de los verdes palmares,
la de la extensa bahía:
Leí ese poema hasta que podía recitar varias líneas, para molestia de mi madre a quien le incomoda la poesía tanto o más que a mí. Pero entonces, para completar, ahora que tengo edad de leer cosas así, dramaticas y pasionales es que he leído libros livianos, para jóvenes.
Eso pasa cuando dejan anaqueles de libros en el piso.
Lee escribe las contestaciones más largas de lo que se imagina.
Show us something seasonal.
Arbolito, arbolito, campanitas te pondré;
Quiero que seas bonito que al recién nacido te voy a ofrecer…
Neighborhood
Explore friends, family, friends & family, or entire neighborhood.
