{"id":800,"date":"2007-12-07T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-09-06T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:43:11","slug":"where-have-all-the-bloggers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/where-have-all-the-bloggers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Have All The Bloggers Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lewis wonders why his old blogging buddies have quit or opted for other less demanding sites like Facebook, MySpace, and, dare we say, tumblr. My comments in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/loo.me\/2007\/12\/07\/levels-of-blogging-where-have-my-blogging-friends-gone\/#comment-30271\">his post<\/a> and why I think people are smart to move aware from \u201cheavy corporate\u201d blogs towards \u201csocial light\u201d blogs:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve started using Tumblr. The ability to reblog other\u2019s posts and track who has reblogged my posts is a refreshing new approach to \u201ccommenting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No longer are we forced to scatter our thoughts across various unconnected websites. Comments, by default, put the commenter at the service of the author.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to Tumblr seems to be its propensity towards encouraging cliques. It\u2019s almost like public email.<\/p>\n<p>MySpace and Facebook seem too diluted for anyone who actually wants to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging seems old and linear. No amount of plugins can save it in the long run. It\u2019s only a matter of time before more is expected from the medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lewis wonders why his old blogging buddies have quit or opted for other less demanding sites like Facebook, MySpace, and, dare we say, tumblr. My comments in response to his post and why I think people are smart to move aware from \u201cheavy corporate\u201d blogs towards \u201csocial light\u201d blogs: I\u2019ve started using Tumblr. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[57,640,636,641],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-blog","tag-bloggers","tag-friend","tag-mike-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}