{"id":2359,"date":"2010-03-16T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2010\/03\/16\/blogging-independence\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:04:06","slug":"blogging-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"Blogging &#038; Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2010\/03\/09\/18InterestingFirsts.html\">Dave Winer nails blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;One of the reasons I&#8217;m proud of it is that blogging was created without the lock-in you see in systems like Twitter, Facebook and though they&#8217;ll argue for sure, Buzz. Even Posterous, Tumblr and WordPress.com don&#8217;t give you easy ways off their servers. Blogging started without the concept of a single server, so there was no place to get off of. <b>The whole point was to be as distributed as the web itself<\/b>, to give people independence, to let billions of websites bloom. This is such an obvious feature of blogs that people don&#8217;t usually see it. But it&#8217;s there, and it&#8217;s hugely important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>He is so right &#8211; Having your own blog is far better than been locked into the likes of Facebook.<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer nails blogging &#8220;One of the reasons I&#8217;m proud of it is that blogging was created without the lock-in you see in systems like Twitter, Facebook and though they&#8217;ll argue for sure, Buzz. Even Posterous, Tumblr and WordPress.com don&#8217;t give you easy ways off their servers. Blogging started without the concept of a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}