Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.
So sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy
tonight I was lucky enough to be invited to a round table meeting with the cream of the young adelaide arts, music, design and advertising scene and the adelaide city council.
- band / gig posters - the city needs more public spaces designated for sticking up posters, so people can pop by and find out what's on that night in the city.
- water frontage bars / cafes - we've got the awesome grassed areas next to the festival centre with lovely water frontage that's an ideal place to hang out on a long summer night, but we need some bars / cafes / street food there to attract people so they don't have to venture to the west end for a drink.
- reduce inner city housing costs - there needs to be something done to create affordable inner city housing for young people. at the moment there's just opposite ends of the spectrum from student 1 room accommodation to $700 / week penthouse living. more young people living in the city = more young people out and contributing.
- increase noise in the city - in the last decade pubs and live music venues have been getting screwed by suffocating noise restrictions forced upon them by touchy old residents in new apartments. the city is meant to be noisy and bustling, so stop listening to the whinging few and bring the noise back to the CBD.
- street art zones - there needs to be a few council-blind-eye areas, where street art can go up and not be buffed.
- first friday gallery night - the first friday of the month becomes a night when all galleries in the west end are open with new artwork, attracting people to west end and building a real sense of community amongst the art scene.
- short term empty shop front leases - the council needs to act as a broker for short term shop front leases, so that empty shop fronts can be transformed into month long exhibitions without the usual pain of going through landlords and huge short term lease fees.
- rolling leases - continuing on from the short term leases are rolling leases, so empty shop fronts get leased as exhibition spaces rolling month to month until the landlord has a full-time tenant. this provides great opportunities for emerging artists with little track record to exhibit and a steady stream of income for landlords that would otherwise have no income from those shop fronts.
- close hindley street - the council experimented with closing hindley street for one saturday night. unfortunately the only attraction was a hotdog and a clown. proposal is to regularly close hindley street once a month on a saturday night to traffic and have food and drink stalls from the clubs and shops on the street and some live bands playing. that would attract people, and make the street less scary / seedy.
- improve public transport - free public transport within the CBD, and extended running hours so that people can stay out in the city longer and still get around and home.
- simple bus route naming system - to make it easier for international students, visitors and the general public, there needs to be a simple naming system to replace the bus numbers in adelaide. colour coded routes and simple names of the directions busses are headed would be much more user friendly.
- dedicated street art laneway - it would be great for the council to dedicate one laneway in the CBD to foster street art. a safe place where anyone can paint anytime. a place where we can run masterclasses by the legends of adelaide street art. ideally the laneway would have a secure stereo system that artists / bands / djs can plug into and have live performances there. we'd install picture frame rails so that there could be outdoor exhibitions there.
- de-regulate the rundle st markets - the gilles street markets are a huge success because they're run by the people. move the rundle st markets to east terrace and put them back into the hands of the people, sell organic farmers market style food and have some live bands and art to attract people.
- take more risks with modern architecture - we're sick of the glass stumps going up around the city. hand some architectural design work to graduate students and talented conceptual architects so that there are more interesting buildings.
- support industrial design - after graduating, industrial design students have few job opportunities in adelaide. to keep the talent in adelaide, fund more gallery spaces devoted to industrial design to show off furniture and product designers.
- more public art - hire local designers to create more public art, especially more interactive public art. art that can be modified by either digital manipulation via SMS or the internet, or even by physical touch.
the last few months have been quite good. here's the good stuff i've been working on:
- new internationalist ethical gifts catalogues
- format festival planning for 2010
- ST5K street art festival grant applications for 2010
- a secret squirrel street art project
- teaching myself objective-c
- working on a logic brain with my good friend kuba
- cleaning my apartment
- fixing my motorbike
It's clear to me that Voxers are some of the most environmentally conscious and creative people out there, which is why I wanted to tell you about Six Apart's “Green by Design” contest. All you have to do to enter is create a Green Badge with an earth-friendly design and/or message.
In April, I told you about a few Green Badges we created for your blogs, and said that when the badges reached 100,000 impressions across the blogosphere, Six Apart would donate $1000 to The Climate Project. Well, as of June 1st, we surpassed that goal by nearly two million impressions. Needless to say, a check is in the mail!
When we realized how many of you were adopting the Green Badges, we thought it would be cool if we came up with a contest that allowed you to put your creativity to good use and make your own Green Badges.
Like the previous badges, the winning badge will link to the One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco website. One Million Acts of Green is a collaborative environmental campaign encouraging everyone to go green. One act at a time. The goal? One million acts of green because, as we all know, we’re more powerful together than we can ever be apart.
Each weekly winner will also receive a one-year subscription to MailStopper, a junk mail stopper service provided by Tonic. Plus, we will donate $150 to a charity in the winner’s name. (For a list of charitable organizations the winner can choose to donate to, please see the contest rules.)
Two runner-ups each week will receive an honorable mention, as well as a one-year subscription to MailStopper.
Plus, when the badges receive a million impressions (and we know they will!), Six Apart will donate another $1000 to The Climate Project.
Here’s what you need to know in order to submit your design:
- The Submission must include a positive environmental message.
- The Submission must be in the JPEG file format.
- The Submission must be 160 x 90 pixels in size at a resolution of 72 dpi.
- The maximum file size of the Submission is 500 kilobytes.
- The Submission must be accompanied by an email address.
- The Submission and each element thereof must be the original work of Participant.
Please email your entry to badgecontest@sixapart.com and don't forget to include your Vox user name and your email address.
There's still time to get your entry in for this week's judging! We're accepting entries until end of day on Friday. If you aren't able to submit by this Friday, don't worry: There's another week left in the contest. The deadline for submissions is June 25, 2009 at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Winners will be announced on Everything TypePad; however, if a Voxer wins, we'll also announce it here, of course.
View all contest rules here.
GOOD LUCK!
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