{"id":21686,"date":"2006-04-10T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/04\/blogosphere-today-maybe.html"},"modified":"2006-04-10T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T21:50:00","slug":"blogosphere-today-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=21686","title":{"rendered":"The blogosphere today (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Two takes on the role of the blogosphere. <\/p>\n<p>First post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganmclintic.com\/pr\/2006\/04\/how_many_blogs_.html\">Morgan McLintic<\/a> reflects on <a href=\"http:\/\/contextrulesmarketing.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/how-many-blogs-really-matter.html\">Dale Wolf&#8217;s<\/a> post based on people who are subscribed to rss feeds on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a> where apparently there are &#8220;only&#8221; 36,000 feeds with more than 29 subscribers. Personally I think this is a gross under estimate. As off the people I know who read blogs etc only one (apart from me) use RSS aggregators. Also I suspect Bloglines is very USAcentric whereas blogging isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Second post is on <a href=\"http:\/\/napsterization.org\/stories\/archives\/000600.html\">The maturing of the blogosphere<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/napsterization.org\/aboutus.htm\">Mary Hodder<\/a> which uses link counting as an indication of popularity particularly on the relationship between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inbound_link\">inbound<\/a> and outbound links. with 4 blogs having more than 10,000 links.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting how both exhibit similar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_tail\">long tail<\/a> effects so vividly. With millions of people having just a few links or a few readers. But the fact is people are gradually turning away from big media and spending more time on their own media.<br \/> \/&gt;Which to me as a true <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anarchist\">anarchist<\/a> is excellent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two takes on the role of the blogosphere. First post by Morgan McLintic reflects on Dale Wolf&#8217;s post based on people who are subscribed to rss feeds on Bloglines where apparently there are &#8220;only&#8221; 36,000 feeds with more than 29 subscribers. Personally I think this is a gross under estimate. As off the people I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}