Amazon Affiliate Tags
June 30, 2006
It would be nice if I could point the Amazon links to my own affiliate account. I guess that’s one of the differences between this and a paid Typepad account.
Nevertheless, I am impressed at how far blogging software has come along. Vox makes it really easy to do most of the things I’d want to do with a blog. The Ajax and the WYSIWYG editor are pretty dang slick. I love the moblogging support. Collections are cool. It’s really like a cleaner, simpler, Typepad. And I think the social aspects are good additions. Frankly I’d prefer it to Typepad even if it cost the same.
I gather from Mena’s blog that the plan is to make this free and advertising supported. I’m sure the Amazon Associate Links are a big part of the planned monetization. Makes sense - but I’d gladly pay for an ad-free version of Vox. Add these features to Typepad and you’ve got me back as a customer.
Loading ...Now Playing: Full Frontal
June 30, 2006
I’d never heard of this Steve Soderberg flick but I found it on the bookshelf of the summer cottage we were renting and I just watched it while waiting for my delayed plane home from Toronto.
Forget the tagline: it’s a lot more subtle than “chance meetings, steamy interludes, sizzling secrets” would lead you to believe. A lot more confusing, too. Soderberg doesn’t like exposition and it took me one and a half viewings (the plane was really late) to separate the movie within a movie from the “real” action. (There’s actually a movie within the movie within a movie. It stars Brad Pitt. Pitt’s celebrity is a running joke in this movie.) It doesn’t help that the only opening titles are from the phony movie. It’s almost as if the director is challenging you to figure out what’s what, but I enjoyed the challenge. Fascinating and innovative, though, as are all of Soderberg’s movies.
There’s a really fun turn by Nicky Katt as a self-absorbed, blood-drinking, actor playing Hitler in the off-off-off Broadway production of “The Sound and the Fuhrer.” David Hyde Pierce is so good I almost forgot “Frasier.” This might be one of Soderberg’s funniest movies. Look for a flashback from “The Limey.”
Sodden thought: Netflix needs an “add all movies from this director” button.
Now Reading: Jarhead
June 30, 2006
A Marine’s account of the first Gulf War. Very timely and compelling. The simple tone contrasts nicely with the complex issues and emotions of Desert Storm. Recommended.
Vox Rox
June 30, 2006
Trying out this very cool new service from the Six Apart folks (thanks to Amber MacArthur for the invite). I was one of the first users of Movable Type, subscribed to Typepad before it was out of beta, and now Vox. I guess I’m a Ben and Mena fanboy!
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