{"id":489,"date":"2004-01-08T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2004-01-08T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T06:11:21","slug":"are-blogs-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Are Blogs Just?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/06\/are_blogs_just.html\">Joi Ito<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ahtisaari.typepad.com\/moia\/2004\/01\/is_the_blogging.html\">Marko Ahtisaari<\/a> in a conversation about whether blogs are just, given the inequality in traffic and link stats that <a href=\"http:\/\/shirky.com\/writings\/powerlaw_weblog.html\">Clay Shirky<\/a> pointed out.  The premise is wrong. The charge of injustice only applies if blog traffic is like money or power; more is better; the greater can oppress the lesser.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/06\/are_blogs_just.html#n013739\">Adam Rice<\/a> has it right here: &#8220;Power laws? I don&#8217;t have a problem with them. I write my blog for my own satisfaction and to let my friends know what I&#8217;m doing and what I&#8217;m thinking about. And to remind me in the future of what I was doing\/thinking. While it&#8217;s nice knowing that other people are reading it (which, I think, a few other people do), that&#8217;s not why I do it.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joi Ito and Marko Ahtisaari in a conversation about whether blogs are just, given the inequality in traffic and link stats that Clay Shirky pointed out. The premise is wrong. The charge of injustice only applies if blog traffic is like money or power; more is better; the greater can oppress the lesser. Adam Rice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Blogs Just?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}