Not to make too much of it, this is very much a "first post" kind of situation.
I've played with Vox's collection capabilities (adding books, music, videos, and photos) and they're quite nice, though there are a few additions I think they could make. For example, under audio, it'd be nice to be able to "add to collection" an existing, already-hosted MP3, the way you can with Odeo.
One nice feature of Vox is that your collections can be browsed by themselves, and you can *also* easily add things from your collections into a blog post if you like. I enjoy the loose coupling. Here's an example:
I added a similar pic to my regular blog just a minute ago. Both are actually hosted on Flickr, but another nice Vox feature is that you can add Flickr images to your Vox collection selectively; you're not restricted to picking an entire stream to include.
I wonder if this might also be the best way to keep track of my books -- there are several "book collection"-type sites out there, but none of them work quite the way I want them to. They need to stop assuming I own every book I want to add to a collection, for example. I just want to keep track of which books I've read, as I go through them pretty quickly and can easily end up forgetting the name of an author or series that I'd like to revisit later. Here's a recent one:
Yeah, trashy, I know.
Anyway.
Vox collections: good stuff. The fact that I'm using this from Flock seems kind of overkill, though.
More later, quite possibly.