Some Press from PCMag

[foxfirefey]

PC Magazine reviews both LiveJournal and Vox.

Notes the ad controversy, although it does (probably unintentionally, due to space and comprehension issues) underplay the amount of advertising that's been introduced to the service:Community is where LiveJournal truly shines, and though Vox has done an impressive job incorporating and improving upon

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[donutgirl]

For those who want the full Web 2.0 experience and decide to make the jump to Vox, Six Apart makes the transition easy, allowing users with VOX accounts to "cross-post" onto their LiveJournal account, essentially posting entries on both sites. This gives VOX adopters the ability to maintain their LiveJournal friends/readership.

I'm not sure about this, either. Someone on my friends list is currently doing this (cross-posting from VOX), but LJ doesn't display her whole post, just the first few lines. They then provide a link, and I can read the rest over on Vox. Fair enough, but once I'm on Vox, I can't comment on her posts without making a Vox account.

I don't know if this is Vox-wide or just my friend's settings, but in any case it's not quite as convenient as the article makes it seem.

[matgb]

The plan is, I think, that Vox will support OpenID login, so LJers will be able to comment over there the same way Voxers can comment over here. They are working on integration of the two, some stuff has been put in changelog already but not gone live yet.

The articles are right about Vox's userfriendliness though, if they do integrate it seemlessly it would be a good one for non-tech aware family.

Think of the exerpt thing as a bit like a cut; it's how I tend to cross post my stuff when I do write elsewhere.

[sterlingnorth]

They just added the ability for crossposting to be of full posts between Vox and LJ. Actually, I believe the feature went live today, January 25, 2007.

[sterlingnorth]

D'oh! I forgot the link to the post from Vox mentioning this.

Stupid forgetfulness...

[foxfirefey]

Curious--do you know anyone who's done testing to see whether when you edit the post on Vox, your change percolates back to the LJ post? They might have changed that, and it would be good to see.

Most of it is pretty moot until Vox allows OpenID commenting from LJers, however.

I experimented woo

[foxfirefey]

Nope. If you edit the post of your Vox, those edits don't get percolated back to the LJ post, and you're back to managing two posts at the same time.

They really need to rename that checkbox now, too, which still says "post an excerpt" even if you've selected full posting as an option.

Also

[foxfirefey]

The LJ post mentions that it was originally posted on Vox, but the Vox post doesn't mention that it was also posted on LJ.

This is relevant because the LJ posts look like they have comments enabled, so there could be comment discussion going on over there, too.