{"id":2892,"date":"2009-08-22T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2009-08-22T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:28:29","slug":"time-off-the-blog-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/time-off-the-blog-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Time off the blog explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/first-post\/\">I started this blog in August 2004<\/a>. At the time, I made a commitment to post an entry per day no matter how brief and I kept that commitment for several years &#8212; I did give myself time off for weekends and I did post multiple posts per day in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, I&#8217;ve been slowing down on my posts to once a week. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smalljones\">Twitter<\/a>, which you see on the left hand side of the blog, picked up the traffic for short comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/smalljones\">Delicious<\/a>, which is also on the left side bar, picked up the interesting links traffic. <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\/user\/smalljones\">Last.fm<\/a> keeps my itunes listening current. <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/smalljones\">Facebook<\/a> mostly picks up tweets as its status updates but it&#8217;s there too. <\/p>\n<p>I claimed that <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/twitter-ate-my-blog\/\">Twitter Ate My Blog!<\/a> but it is more complicated than that. The interlacing of my social communication meant that different special tools (twitter, delicious, last.fm picked up a lot of what the most general tool (the blog) was doing &#8212; and better they have become part of the blog itself instead of separate disparate entities.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three weeks, when there was blog silence, there was plenty going on. We were on a long for us vacation on the Left Coast and then moving our son into his new school, NC School of Science and Math, but the blog as still active &#8212; even though no new articles were being posted &#8212; thanks to Twitter and others.<\/p>\n<p>Almost five years into the blog, it&#8217;s now updated more often with more information than ever before even when I&#8217;m off, I&#8217;m on. Scary in a way, but also reflective of the why we all work and play these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog in August 2004. At the time, I made a commitment to post an entry per day no matter how brief and I kept that commitment for several years &#8212; I did give myself time off for weekends and I did post multiple posts per day in some cases. In the past [&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-2892","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\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}