{"id":2627,"date":"2002-05-28T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2002-05-28T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2002-05-28T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2002-05-28T17:47:04","slug":"life_in_the_blo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/28\/life_in_the_blo.html","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another long, well-thought-out article from Microcontent News on the Weblog\/Journalism Ecosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like any ecosystem, the Blogosphere demonstrates all the classic ecological patterns: predators and prey, evolution and emergence, natural selection and adaptation. I’ve often thought that anthropologists were best equipped to deconstruct the emerging blogging sub-culture, but now I’m convinced I got it wrong: the greater mysteries of the Blogosphere will be unlocked instead by evolutionary biologists.<\/p>\n

(Via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another long, well-thought-out article from Microcontent News on the Weblog\/Journalism Ecosphere. Like any ecosystem, the Blogosphere demonstrates all the classic ecological patterns: predators and prey, evolution and emergence,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1963,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/02\/resistance_is_f.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":0},"title":"Resistance is Futile","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-02 10:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Microcontent News has an interesting article by John Hiller on Borg Journalism, in which blogs take on the role of the Borg (or ants), assimilating, collectively, the function of journalism....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6538,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/i_am_a_flappy_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":1},"title":"I am a Flappy Bird","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Aug-04 1:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem. Which is an improvement on being a Slithery Reptile, but not nearly as cool as a predatory Large Mammal, dagnabbit....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24672,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/just-the-politifacts-maam.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":2},"title":"Just the PolitiFacts, ma'am","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Dec-11 4:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I generally applaud explicit fact-checking groups (at least when they actually demonstrate where the facts they are checking against are). Of course, one could argue that all journalism and news coverage should include fact-checking ... This particular episode from PolitifFact, though, demonstrates the danger when fact-checking becomes judgments on interpretations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5258,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/16\/your_blogging_c.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":3},"title":"Your blogging commentary for today","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Apr-04 7:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I think this describes too many people in the blogosphere -- myself included, at times....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8115,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/about_the_blogo.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":4},"title":"About the Blogosphere","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-May-05 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I wonder there is more to life than to participate in acts of aggression. What has that got to do with the Blogosphere, you ask. Fair enough. Okay, I...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6027,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/confusion_to_ou.html","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":5},"title":"Confusion to our enemies!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jun-04 9:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Roger L. Simon opens up a new and (or at least) much-needed topic area in the blogosphere....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}