{"id":2007,"date":"2007-12-08T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/08\/weblo-routes-around-facebook-ad-ban\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:40:05","slug":"weblo-routes-around-facebook-ad-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/08\/weblo-routes-around-facebook-ad-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Weblo routes around Facebook ad ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and online marketing wizard Leigh Himel has <a href=\"http:\/\/leighhimel.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/iching-of-network.html\">a great post<\/a> today on Facebook, in the wake of a New York Times story about how a Montreal company (Weblo, which also runs a kind of virtual world by the same name) is helping Facebook users <a href=\"http:\/\/leighhimel.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/iching-of-network.html\">run ads<\/a> on their own profile pages &#8212; something the social network officially doesn&#8217;t allow.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh compares this phenomenon to the advice from the I Ching about how a network (i.e., Facebook users) should behave when confronted by an obstacle. She has the entire network-related excerpt on her blog, but I think the following excerpt is the most appropriate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;5. Despite the importance of the obstruction, if the network is totally committed to the task it will attract collaborators with whom success may be achieved. (Resulting in: Unpretentiousness).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How Facebook responds remains to be seen &#8212; but as Louise Story points out in the Times piece, it&#8217;s not going to look good if the social-networking site starts clamping down on its users so soon after the Facebook Bacon debacle. <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and online marketing wizard Leigh Himel has a great post today on Facebook, in the wake of a New York Times story about how a Montreal company (Weblo, which also runs a kind of virtual world by the same name) is helping Facebook users run ads on their own profile pages &#8212; something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/08\/weblo-routes-around-facebook-ad-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weblo routes around Facebook ad ban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"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-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}