{"id":784,"date":"2019-04-29T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=784"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:24:21","slug":"blogs-come-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/04\/29\/blogs-come-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs come and go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There\u2019s also the general cultural shift from blogs to social media.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/feministphilosophers.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/23\/closing-down-fp\/\">Jenny Saul<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The pull quote is from the announcement that the <a href=\"https:\/\/feministphilosophers.wordpress.com\/\">Feminist Philosophers<\/a> blog is shutting down. It had a good run, but it&#8217;s sad to see it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine some kind of segue here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My colleague Monika Piotrowska wrote a recent post for the Blog of the APA about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.apaonline.org\/2019\/04\/25\/can-we-reproduce-the-woolly-mammoth\/\">the possibility of de-extinction<\/a>. Last week I complimented her on the post, and she expressed surprise that I&#8217;d seen it. I still do the old-school thing of using an RSS reader to follow blogs that I care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saul is right, though. Lots of things that would have been on a blog a decade ago are now Tweeted or Facebooked. This post could drift off into maudlin reflection, dismay at the state of culture, or references to Marshall McLuhan. But I&#8217;m not going to do it. &#x1f644;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an RSS reader, I highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/theoldreader.com\/\">The Old Reader<\/a>. It was founded after Google torpedoed GoogleReader, and the founders were programmers who just wanted something that had the same basic functionality. They subsidize it with a Premium option, but the free account will aggregate up to 100 blogs. I&#8217;m using only about two-thirds of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s also the general cultural shift from blogs to social media. Jenny Saul The pull quote is from the announcement that the Feminist Philosophers blog is shutting down. It had a good run, but it&#8217;s sad to see it go. Imagine some kind of segue here. My colleague Monika Piotrowska wrote a recent post for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/04\/29\/blogs-come-and-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogs come and go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump","tag-albany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-cE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}