missy’s Neighborhood

First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!

The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.

TypePad Micro

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A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.

Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.

And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!

~ daisy

As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.

The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.

When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.

It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.

Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.

As always, thanks for your patience.

~daisy

It started quite harsh. What do you think of this welcome board at the airport??? That is quite something I would say...

Gentlemen city

Especially as the frame for the ILGA Trans*Rights conference held on Wed. October, 28th in Malta. Their poster look much better, look...:

Trans*rights Malta

After the arrival at the quite impressive location of the Centre for Creativity of St James Cavalier, dedicated to contemporary arts, it all went so fast: 4 hours sound check with my great technician Katya, one hour show in front of the ILGA delegates, a nice cruise through the beautiful harbours of Malta, and a roof-top tour around this beautiful island. I promised to come back, and I will..

and then, on my way back to the airport, I see the campaign billboarded by ILGA all around the island... yeah, this gives a realy good balance to my first impression! A city built by gentlemen for gentlemen loving gentlemen, ahaha ;-)

Different families same love

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.

~daisy

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,

daisy

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.

~daisy

Blog Action Day

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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

Tja, wie wäre es mit ein bißchen Deutsch bloggen für einmal? Zur Ehre der tollen Festival Macherinnen des Fiber in Wien! Rampenfiber kommt eigentlich von Rampensau + Bühnenfieber, also mindestens ist das meine Definition und es trifft auch 100%. Fantastic programme, great musicians, cool mix and good discussions... I came back with awesome CDs from my colleagues and heard them while the washing machine was doing the drums... my Tshirts were soaked from energy, challenge to be back on stage after 6 months creative break, with some new stuff, but the most soaking experience was for sure the emotion of the audience, yeah, Vienna, I asked you to show me what you've got, und Ihr habt es mir echt gegeben :-) so, muß jetzt die Wäsche hängen. Und die CD von allroh noch einmal hören, die geht unter der Hautmembranen und läßt meine Sinnsensoren explodieren. Und danach Lissi Dancefloor Disaster, um den Schlafmangel ein wenig zu verschieben. Und danach, vielleicht, endlich mal tanzen. Äh, schlafen.

Feminist danger zone

Fiber wien

A friend told me I looked like a mega trav' with that dress. No wonder i could win the Trav'Academy on December 28th in my childhood town Nice ;-) Actually, I was simply on holiday with no intention except doing nothing... didn't even know about clubs there until I met Emmanuel (who gave me the flyer...) and Jean-Baptiste...
He said the Klub was THE club to go, the biggest gay venue on the Côte d'azur.
And there was this drag contest coming up (actually, drag queen contest as I am not so sure they saw many kings before last night...).
And the fact is I broke my rib by helping somebody on the train a couple of days ago...
And the person I trust most keeps telling me the stage is always healing me.
So I decided to go. To heal, of course. I always forget everything on stage. Pain, doubt, tireness, tensions, the stage is the place to be... indeed I had no choice, right?

Trav'Academy @ Le Klub, Nice

The very best was as the Ex of Jean Baptiste asked me: but how could you win if you're not even in drag? :-)  Guys, I tell you, I have to work on my passing to allow more trans*visibility..

But the most important was to meet LaBlack, Emmanuel at the technique, Moussette, Ilona, Arnaud et Karim qui en a même décidé de tourner gay... hmm..

Alors comme j'ai gagné entre autres un week-end à Nice, je reviendrais y remettre le feu cet été!

(The video is only for the hard core fans... be careful: I took the sound away so your hears wouldn't be scratched forever... but be careful not to screw your neck while watching...)

Femme like U1

Femme like U 2

BONNE ET HEUREUSE ANNÉE À TOUS!!!! les chiffres de 2009 semblent dejá très érotiques non...? ;-9

Well - I thought one world tour would be enough.. but at the end after the tour is before the tour, right? After a 6 months break to regenerate, I rocked the feminist music festival rampenfiber (yeah, without an e) in Vienna in September, had to skip the International Drag King Extravaganza with the theme "No Borders" in Arizona because of that stupid bike accident, attended the ILGA trans*rights conference with crutches in Malta in October, and now preparing the anti-violence conference in San Sebastian by the end of November and the Drag Night in Bern shortly before X-mas. And: 2010 will be the big Eastern Tour with shows planned in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia.. among other gigs!

Boarding Pass to Vienna