{"id":41,"date":"2003-07-01T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T13:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/the_web_and_democracy\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T13:07:02","slug":"the_web_and_democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/01\/the_web_and_democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

VentureBlog has an article examining whether or not the internet and blogging are inherently democratic<\/a>. The question is not just about politics, but about the democratization of information as well. I agree with them that the answer is clearly ‘yes’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VentureBlog has an article examining whether or not the internet and blogging are inherently democratic. The question is not just about politics, but about the democratization of information as well. I agree with them that the answer is clearly ‘yes’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":397,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/blogosphereradiocom\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":0},"title":"BlogosphereRadio.com","date":"September 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting: BlogosphereRadio.com is a website devoted to the intersection of blogs and Internet radio. We strive to live up to our tagline as the voice of the blogosphere. BlogosphereRadio.com is run by university students in Edmonton, AB, Canada.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":408,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/morgan_stanley_report_on_monetizing_blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":1},"title":"Morgan Stanley Report on Monetizing Blogs","date":"October 29, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A report by some Morgan Stanley analysts that all bloggers should read, IMHO.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":109,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/24\/our_great_melting_pot_not\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":2},"title":"Our Great Melting Pot… Not!","date":"July 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"There's an interesting article on Corante about a comparison of Xanga and LiveJournal communities. It shows that \"a LiveJournal user picked at random is overwhelmingly likely to be white, while a random Xangan is much more likely to be Asian or Asian-American\", as you can see clearly by the graph.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/google_integrating_blogs_into_toolbar\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":3},"title":"Google Integrating Blogs Into Toolbar","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the new Google Toolbar, which has a BlogThis feature included. We're starting to see the impact of their purchase of Blogger.com","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/bbc_goes_rss\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":4},"title":"BBC goes RSS","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC is way ahead of the game as far as open syndication. They've just announced that they are providing RSS feeds for all of their content. I wonder if the blog ecosystem will jump on this and force the American papers to follow suit?","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/newsmonster\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":5},"title":"NewsMonster","date":"June 27, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been trying to find a good RSS reader\/news reader, and it looks like I just found the one. Sifry has a great synopsis of NewMonster's features. The killer feature, IMO, is that it incorporates many of Technorati's tools. You can download NewsMonster here.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}