{"id":131344,"date":"2016-08-23T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/onto-the-next-big-story.html"},"modified":"2016-08-23T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:18:48","slug":"onto-the-next-big-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/onto-the-next-big-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Onto the Next Big Story!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the media was all over the amazing, huge, culture-changing impact of all the folk signing up for <i>Pok&eacute;mon Go,<\/i> the inevitable <i>next<\/i> story for the media is how it was all a silly flash in the pan, numbers dropping, people disengaged, on to the next fad.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the numbers themselves (in either direction) are all that surprising, but rather than look at some causes or reasons or even analysis about the sectors where it is (or isn&#39;t) shedding players, it&#39;s all just Backlash City and coverage as shallow as the awe-filled stories about the game&#39;s initial popularity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/gaming\/2016\/08\/pokemon-go-sheds-more-than-10m-users\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HWsHxMWjwmsEOIJoxZKUC3Dm7vJO6cSn03OUAy3YFo3_P-YOZrK5DvZDBYmS7-eUk9B_qG3qEq6QJcXxz1nZwUhEFPsU4EIHpCsu7hZRg4iIt25bdbr5-_yq-xSKi-ZRuRlLJnXayg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/gaming\/2016\/08\/pokemon-go-sheds-more-than-10m-users\/'>Pok&eacute;mon Go loses its lustre, sheds more than 10 million users<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nEngagement, downloads, and time spent in the app are fading fast.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EN7YB2QyhPG'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the media was all over the amazing, huge, culture-changing impact of all the folk signing up for Pok&eacute;mon Go, the inevitable next story for the media is how it was all a silly flash in the pan, numbers dropping, people disengaged, on to the next fad. Not that the numbers themselves (in either direction) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/onto-the-next-big-story.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Onto the Next Big Story!!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/we-dont-need-no-higher-education-republicans.html","url_meta":{"origin":131344,"position":0},"title":"We don&#039;t need no [higher] education!&quot; &#8212; Republicans","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Jul-17 5:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Who'd've thought that Republicans would become such big Pink Floyd fans? 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