4 posts tagged “vox”

I took a week off to go to Birmingham and when I got back to the office I found that vox.com had been added to the list of sites blocked by my current client's corporate firewall. So someone somewhere in the organisation has decided that vox.com is a nasty timewasting site (like myspace) and not something that is useful to the business (like typepad or blogspot).

I don't pretend to understand how they make these decisions. But it means that I won't be blogging on Vox during the day for as long as I'm working on site for this client.

Bad English on the web annoys me. Which is all very unfortunate as there's so much of it out there. Vox isn't immune to this. I've just noticed that they consistantly spell "neighbourhood" without the "u". I suppose I should make an exception as they're American and therefore can't be expected to use proper English - but it would be nice to have the option to have it spelt correctly.

I've also seen one of my pet English peeves. Vox members can invite friends to join Vox. In English something that you send to someone else inviting them to do something is called an "invitation". In internet English that is often abbreviated to an "invite". Vox do that. I have two "invites" that I can give to friends. That's wrong. The noun is "invitation"; "invite" is a verb. I often see a similar problem with "install" and "installation".

But I realise I'm fighting a losing battle here. I'm the King Canute of English pedantry.

Hmm... see I thought I was special when I got my Vox invitation this morning. But it seems Vox underwent a massive expansion overnight. There appear to be millions of new people slowly finding their way around the place.

Ok, so here I am. It all looks very shiny. Over the next few days I'll have a bit of a look around and poke a few buttons and see what happens.

If there's anything you think I should be looking at then please let me know.