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Discover the Best of the Blogosphere

2008-08-22T22:29:12Z

One of my favorite things about working at Six Apart is that it's a company founded by bloggers, for bloggers. As a result, not only do we want to provide bloggers with the best tools (like Vox, TypePad and Movable Type), we're also committed to ...

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Wedding Bells on Vox! (Plus, a few new themes.)

2008-08-11T18:26:03Z

CONGRATULATIONS PAPI CHULO & SECRET AGENT SCOTCH! "When was the last time you were at a wedding that had a death defying hike, rogue waves, a luau, ultimate fighting, a presidential candidate and a budding bromance?" asks Papi Chulo. For most of...

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Follow Your Themes

2008-07-28T23:26:12Z

At Vox, we believe that change is a good thing. After all, you wouldn't wear the same t-shirt day in and day out, so why should your blog have to suffer the same fate? Give your blog a new look with one of our latest themes (found under "New"), or...

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Become a Vox Fan on Facebook

2008-07-22T21:25:50Z

Gimme a V! Gimme an O! Gimme an X! What's that spell? VOX! What better way to tell the world how much you love Vox than to announce it on Facebook? That's right: Vox now has an official Facebook page! Become a fan of Vox.com on Facebook and let...

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Mommy Bloggers Hit the Road

2008-07-15T22:38:06Z

Although we typically post on Team Vox to let you know about things that are going on with Vox (to, uh, state the obvious), once in a while, we like to let you know about other cool things that are happening around the blogosphere. And we think t...

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Lives in Limbo

2008-07-09T16:33:37Z

The queue curves around the corner like a frozen riot. People are standing chin-to-back, stomach-to-buttocks. Shoving. And desperate. What would have been ZANU propaganda from heaven if it were a queue at a polling station just weeks ago is today ...

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Vox Meetup This Saturday: Cincinnati, Ohio

2008-07-08T18:12:24Z

Cincinnati, Ohio Vox Meetup Do you live in or around Cincinnati, Ohio? If so, you're in luck because Scott and the Queen City Voxers Group have organized a Vox user meetup! WHEN: This Saturday, July 12th WHERE: Ault Park Playground. 3600 Obse...

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Hope and Hunger

2008-06-28T16:43:22Z

Things aren't always as they seem. The day after the bloodiest election Zimbabwe has ever seen a show of resistance can spring forth. Like a flower from shit. 'Hope and Hunger' was theme of the show put on by our youthful MAGAMBA! Netwo...

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Stayaways and Spoilers

2008-06-27T20:34:30Z

“So, Dread, where’s your mbanje?” Coffee is a good way to start the day. I started mine in a more Zimbabwean way: arrested for avoiding a road block and then being searched for mbanje. Not having smoked weed for a while luckily I didn’t have any....

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Many Fires

2008-06-25T18:26:15Z

Bread now costs fifteen billion dollars. Hustled. On the street corner. Meat in the shops goes for nothing less than thirty billion. These insane numbers put basics out of reach for the average, struggling Zimbabwean. This, we are told by the mil...

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