{"id":200,"date":"2006-01-05T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-01-05T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T14:22:20","slug":"just_try_to_pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Just try to pay attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made two New Year’s resolutions last week. The first was to stop blogging for a while to make time to do some other stuff. I broke that one yesterday. The second was to avoid getting into feedback loops with other bloggers. Today I’m going to break that one by quoting, in full, Steve Gillmor’s response<\/a> to what I wrote yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Nick Carr’s latest post is a perfect example of a neutral gesture, one that sets up a transitional premise as the root of an alleged fundamental game-changer. As a gesture, it is still useful to those who view Nick’s conservative optimist-baiting as treading water. In this case, Nick moves up slightly in GestureRank by providing cues to the mid-market audience of fence-sitters in the Attention reboot. Nick’s facts are rigorous; his conclusions rudimentary. Net: The ball moves forward for those who have configured his gestures efficiently for their world view. For Nick, the book base builds. Not bad for slumming in the blogosphere. GestureRank: 7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does Steve have someone translate his posts into French and then back into English before he publishes them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made two New Year’s resolutions last week. The first was to stop blogging for a while to make time to do some other stuff. I broke that one yesterday. The second was to avoid getting into feedback loops with other bloggers. Today I’m going to break that one by quoting, in full, Steve Gillmor’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}