{"id":897,"date":"2007-10-01T23:19:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=897"},"modified":"2007-10-01T23:19:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T05:19:05","slug":"sic_transit_glo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Number 34, but fading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Techmeme has come out with the Techmeme Leaderboard<\/a>, which I like to think of as a celestial chart that ordinary earthlings can use to identify the shining stars of the technology blogosphere. I should point out – not that I pay attention to such things, of course – that on the very first publicly released Leaderboard, which was published<\/a> yesterday by Dave Winer on his venerable blog Scripting News, Rough Type ranked Number 34. (It’s also probably worth noting that Rough Type was actually Number 1 among “real blogs,” as defined<\/a> by Robert Scoble, who wrote the book on blogging). I have since fallen one slot, to 35, as Dave Winer slipped past me today on the Leaderboard on the strength of – you guessed it – his post about the Leaderboard. (The technology blogosphere is like a giant dog that is forever chasing its tail – except when it stops to lick its netherparts.) I am not at all bitter that my trajectory has already turned downward. Not bitter in the least. In fact, I have to confess to feeling a little bit swollen with pride this evening – and I don’t think it’s just the kielbasa I had for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Techmeme has come out with the Techmeme Leaderboard, which I like to think of as a celestial chart that ordinary earthlings can use to identify the shining stars of the technology blogosphere. I should point out – not that I pay attention to such things, of course – that on the very first publicly released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}