Bootleg QotD: How I Found Vox
A long time ago I submitted this as a real QotD suggestion to Vox but I don't feel like waiting so I'm creating a Bootleg QotD.
Tell us how you found out about Vox
I'm glad you asked!
It's like this, I read lots and lots of blogs everyday, and the list is forever growing, at last count I was up to 27 and that doesn't count the people in my Vox neighborhood.
I know it sounds like a lot of blogs but not everyone posts every day and I don't feel compelled to read every post. Most days on most blogs I breeze through the articles/links and read the ones that are of interest. Sure some of the sites have the same content but that makes the reading that much faster, I only have to see it once (although sometimes different sites will have different takes on the same thing and it can make for some interesting reading. Anyway we are getting off the point here)
One of my favorite bloggers is a gent named Matt Haughey (AKA Mathowie). He runs a community blog called Metafilter (it's really awesome, check it out, also check out Ask Metafilter). One day I was reading A Whole Lotta Nothing (one of his many sites) and read a post called "Vox Love" I read it but didn't pay too much mind to it. I didn't even click the link to his Vox site from the article.
A couple of weeks later I was reading Andy Baio's (my Internet God) blog Waxy.org and came across a link titled "Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?" which turned out to be on Vox. I poked around a bit, looking at other people's sites and neighborhoods.
This caused me to go back and look at "Vox Love" and read though Mathowie's Vox. I was a bit confused at first since it had just become "Vox" from the code name "Comet" and the posts were calling it both. It was invite only which I thought was pretty cool so on a lark I asked to be invited.
Sometime later I received my invite and the rest is in the archives.
So now that that's over, lets answer the Bootleg QotD:
