{"id":2000,"date":"2007-03-24T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2007-03-24T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T22:12:38","slug":"the-rise-of-carrboro-the-fall-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-rise-of-carrboro-the-fall-of-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Carrboro, the Fall of San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful spring day and the opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborofarmersmarket.com\/\">Carrboro Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a> coincides with the initial publication of the Carrboro Citizen. The Citizen is in boxes around the town and in the front of Weaver Street. As I sat at the Weave with my coffee reading the Citizen, several folks stopped and asked where to get a copy. The excitement of having a locally owned small town paper that is put out by people who know and love the town was and is palpable. (also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/\">their website<\/a> if you are paper adverse or far from the Paris of the Piedmont).<\/p>\n<p>Out on the Left Coast&#8217;s other Bohemia, <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/sf_chronicle_in.html\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly reports on the desperate straits that the San Francisco Chronicle flounders in<\/a>. That leads to a spirited and informative discussion and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dave Winer has a solution or better a set of solutions which he calls his <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.scripting.com\/2007\/03\/24\/troubleAtTheChronicle.html\">&#8220;message of hope&#8221;<\/a> consisting of two points (which he explains in more detail<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n&#8220;journalism should become a required course, one or two semesters for every graduate&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;embrace the best bloggers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/\">Carrboro Citizen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/sf_chronicle_in.html\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.scripting.com\/2007\/03\/24\/troubleAtTheChronicle.html\">Winer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful spring day and the opening of the Carrboro Farmers&#8217; Market coincides with the initial publication of the Carrboro Citizen. The Citizen is in boxes around the town and in the front of Weaver Street. As I sat at the Weave with my coffee reading the Citizen, several folks stopped and asked where to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}