{"id":257,"date":"2004-09-28T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/npr_discovers_the_weblog.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"npr_discovers_the_weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/09\/28\/npr_discovers_the_weblog","title":{"rendered":"NPR Discovers the Weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I expect other bloggers share my slight irritation when the traditional media run a story about the &#8220;blogging phenomenon.&#8221; On Sunday morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rundowns\/segment.php?wfId=3936919\">NPR Weekend Edition interviewed New York Times correspondent Matthew Klam<\/a> who had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/26\/magazine\/26BLOGS.html\">story in the Sunday Times Magazine<\/a> about blogging and the election. Two of the more inane questions (from memory) were: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are some bloggers more trusted than others?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you think bloggers are having a bigger effect in this election than in 2000?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The New York Times writer&#8217;s answer were almost as inane. He commented that in 2000, a lot of bloggers were still hand-coding HTML. <\/p>\n<p> Maybe it&#8217;s wishful thinking, but I would just prefer that they leave us alone. Let us do our thing, and let them do their thing. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m also struggling with the question of how an associate in a fairly sizable law firm can continue blogging. I know some of my readers are partners or solo practioners who don&#8217;t have to be as concerned about discretion; but what about for those of us low on the totem poll. Any suggestions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect other bloggers share my slight irritation when the traditional media run a story about the &#8220;blogging phenomenon.&#8221; On Sunday morning, NPR Weekend Edition interviewed New York Times correspondent Matthew Klam who had a story in the Sunday Times Magazine about blogging and the election. Two of the more inane questions (from memory) were: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}