{"id":3226,"date":"2012-01-26T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2012-01-26T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T04:40:21","slug":"on-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/on-information\/","title":{"rendered":"On Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason why I have a blog is to provide information.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/human-knowledge-brought-to-you-by-\/2012\/01\/06\/gIQALP0ofP_print.html\">Wash Post<\/a> had an interesting point about the history of published information, and the point of the column is to talk about how our informational commons is for the most part built atop a latticework of advertising platforms.<br \/>\nIn that way, it\u2019s possible that no single industry \u2014 not newspapers nor search engines nor anything else \u2014 has done as much to advance the storehouse of accessible human knowledge in the 20th century as advertisers. They didn\u2019t do it because they are philanthropists, and they didn\u2019t do it because they love information. But they did it nevertheless.<br \/>\nAn interesting point of view, and a good way to kick off the year considering that a single advertiser underwrites the hosting fee, and therefore all off the costs considering my labor is free, for this blog.  You&#8217;d never suspect that one of the tiny text links on the left is a paid ad, would you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason why I have a blog is to provide information. The Wash Post had an interesting point about the history of published information, and the point of the column is to talk about how our informational commons is for the most part built atop a latticework of advertising platforms. In that way, it\u2019s possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}