{"id":432,"date":"2006-07-26T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/26\/items-that-may-one-day-be-posts\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T17:45:31","slug":"items-that-may-one-day-be-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/26\/items-that-may-one-day-be-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Items that may one day be posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Motion Picture Association may have picked on the wrong guy when they sent a letter asking software developer Shawn Hogan to pay up for downloading movies. He happens to <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.08\/start.html?pg=3\">be a multi-millionaire<\/a>, and plans to take the MPAA to court.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Eric Rice of Hipcast makes the point that podcasts and other audio and video content <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericrice.com\/blog\/?p=69\">are not two-way<\/a> &#8212; in other words, not conversations but monologues in a sense (although they can contain conversations). This may seem obvious, but I think it bears remembering.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Once again, a couple of members of the &#8220;old&#8221; media show that they don&#8217;t know how to take a joke: Ken Jennings, the guy who won all that money on Jeopardy, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/ken-jennings.com\/blog\/?p=70\">a satirical post<\/a> on his blog about the show in which he called Alex Trebek a cyborg (among other things), and the New York Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/entertainment\/gift_horse__meet_ken_jennings_entertainment_michael_starr.htm\">reamed him<\/a> out for it, as did the <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/07\/25\/people.kenjennings.ap\/\">Associated Press<\/a>. That&#8217;s just sad.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\nNew Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell returns to the scene of the crime and <a href=\"http:\/\/gladwell.typepad.com\/gladwellcom\/2006\/07\/the_derivative_.html\">responds to criticism<\/a> of the comments he made awhile back (eons in blogosphere terms) about how blogs are derivative. He qualifies his comments a bit, but sticks to his central point, and says that being derivative isn&#8217;t necessarily a bad thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motion Picture Association may have picked on the wrong guy when they sent a letter asking software developer Shawn Hogan to pay up for downloading movies. He happens to be a multi-millionaire, and plans to take the MPAA to court. Eric Rice of Hipcast makes the point that podcasts and other audio and video &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/26\/items-that-may-one-day-be-posts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Items that may one day be posts&#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-432","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\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}