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Posted by rochelle 938 days ago (Editorial)

What you don’t know about Voxometer


Ok – we’ve been live a few weeks. By now you know how Voxometer works. You post a suggestion. You invite your friends and neighbors to vote for your suggestion and to comment on it. Each month we count down to the last day, when the suggestion with the most votes wins. The winner becomes an action item for the VoxSQUAD and we spend the next month writing letters, emails, press releases, blog post

Posted by lenti 944 days ago (Editorial)

Celebrity Train Wreck - Who’s To Blame?

Lindsay Lohan’s over-exposure is not the media's fault. Afterall, they are motivated by one impulse: sell papers, ad space, increase circulations - in short, give the public what they want. Therefore, the real problem lies not with the media but within each and every one of us. Why are we so intrigued by celebrity? Why has this become more important in our culture than the Chilean Miners or

Posted by rochelle 945 days ago (Editorial)

Building the Voxometer community


You may have wondered where we are now in the development of Voxometer.com. We started by inviting an exclusive group of friends and family to help us test the site while in beta. We've learned a lot and we're making small improvements here and there. While we always plan to improve the site where we can - for now we're pretty much where we want to be. And we're ready for your input.

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Posted by rochelle 952 days ago (Editorial)

What makes a celebrity?


What is the fascination with celebrity these days? Celebrities sell tv programs and movies. Their lifestyles sell magazines and promote clothing and accessories lines. Their behavior is our gossip fodder. They write a biography, we scrabble to buy it to find out more about their lives. Celebrities have even overtaken super models (who are celebrities themselves) for the primo spots in ads and fas

Posted by lenti 957 days ago (Editorial)

A Game of Chance


Voxometer's "Random" category is working!!

This is one of the best ways to browse the ideas that the VoxFolks have. When you select it, five totally unrelated ideas from multiple categories are kicked back. It's a fun way to read about what people are thinking.

Even better, after a few pokes you start to think about new ideas as your brain tries to bridge the gap between these chance sugg