{"id":1165,"date":"2008-10-25T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2008-10-25T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:18:44","slug":"has-blogging-has-its-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Has blogging has its day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thinking about launching your own blog? Here&#8217;s some friendly advice: Don&#8217;t. And if you&#8217;ve already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog today isn&#8217;t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/theweb\/magazine\/16-11\/st_essay\">an article<\/a> in the current issue of &#8220;Wired&#8221; magazine opens.  It&#8217;s led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/technology\/2008\/10\/is_blogging_dead.html\">quite a discussion<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe suggestion in the article is that blogs are being replaced by the likes of  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>. I did try Twitter when it first became popular but it wasn&#8217;t for me. I need more words to express my thoughts and ideas and I want a larger audience that I would have with Twitter.<br \/>\nThe fact that you &#8211; and so many others &#8211; visit NightHawk so often is proof enough for me that I&#8217;m doing something worthwhile as well as enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thinking about launching your own blog? Here&#8217;s some friendly advice: Don&#8217;t. And if you&#8217;ve already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog today isn&#8217;t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}