{"id":529,"date":"2006-04-10T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2006-04-10T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T21:50:00","slug":"the-blogosphere-today-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"The blogosphere today (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 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 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 The maturing of the blogosphere by Mary Hodder 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","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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}