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Why do I have to be a VOX member to leave a comment?  Blogger supports anonymous comments.

I don't know; SixApart, the parent company of VOX, made it that way.  This setup is similar to several other closed communities, such as MOG, iMeem, and Multiply.  I would prefer support for anonymous comments, with some spam guards, of course.

Can I download your mp3 files?

Yes, if you can find the URL for the file.  Subscribing to the blog's RSS feed in Google Reader will help you out on that front.

I subscribe to the RSS feed, but I don't see the whole post, just the first few lines.

The default feed URL is http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/posts/atom.xml, which only supplies the first few lines of each entry.  You can get the full entries by subscribing to http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/posts/atom-full.xml.  I don't remember where I learned that, but it works.

Why won't your YouTube videos play inside Google Reader?

I don't know, I wish they did.  The ones I get in feeds from Blogger do; maybe that's one of the "synergies" of Google Reader, YouTube, and Blogger all being owned by the same company.

What about other blog readers?

I only use Google Reader, so that's the only one I can answer questions about.

Why don't you link to my blog/website in the sidebar?

The VOX blog template gives you up to five links; that's it.  The template is not editable beyond a few predefined customizations.  Pretty lame, I know.

So why do you use VOX?

VOX has one great feature the other blog platforms don't: seamless, integrated music file hosting and playback.  I don't have to worry about finding a third-party host for my mp3 files and then linking a player to them for each post, and then worry about a monthly bandwidth allotment on the host.  VOX takes care of all of that, so I can spend my time blogging and not managing files.

Feel free to add more questions in the comments.  (After registering, of course!)