the way of the buffalo.

This Vox account has been dying.  For a long time.

It began quietly enough, with a post about smelling like vomit.  Then it quickly evolved into a daily blogging challenge.  I found myself thrown into a frenzy of creativity, forcing out some horrible chunks of text that would, eventually, result in my piecing together at least a few worthwhile posts.  But, over the nearly two years since, it's slowly dwindled down to nothing.  What once was a swaggering and proud piece of the internet world has now been reduced to a crumbling shell of its former glory.

When I started out this Vox account I didn't really count on getting this kind of mileage out of a blog.  When I started up the daily blogging challenge with Scrambler Biggs, it never occurred to me that it would take up quite as many joyous hours of my life as it did.  And, despite the overwhelming reality that I'm not a very good writer, I feel that my prose-creation process was somehow bettered throughout this little project.

That's why I've decided to move on to a new location somewhere on this vast and loose network that we like to call the internet.

My reasoning for this is based on a few of the features that Vox doesn't currently provide (nor would I expect them to at this point in their development) including:

• an auto-save feature
• automated posting process through the use of future-dated posts
• more flexibility in layout design management
• unregistered reader comment capabilities
  

That being said, most platforms don't necessarily allow you to network with the same fluidity that Vox does - there won't be any groups to cross-post to and no neighbor pages to glean through.  However, I'll likely continue to monitor my neighbor page via my RSS reader and maintain my Vox account for the purposes of commenting on posts or administering for the groups I'm involved in.  Hell, I might even do some cross-posting to this account, just to make myself feel involved again.

But, as they say, nothing golden stays.  So, instead, I'm in talks with a certain blogging-nemesis of mine to determine what sort of schedule we can both agree to conduct our future blogging duels within.  I'll make more details available as they develop.

In the meantime, keep your chin up, my dear readers - all none of you.  Soon, I hope to return to blugdeoning the world wide web to death with more of my meaningless chatter.  And you're all going to be invited.