{"id":1248,"date":"2003-08-21T23:57:45","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/21\/ben-hammersleys-dangerous-precedent\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T23:57:45","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T03:57:45","slug":"ben-hammersleys-dangerous-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/21\/ben-hammersleys-dangerous-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hammersley&#8217;s Dangerous Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a723'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hammersley.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"326\">\n<p>Armed only with a powerbook and some fine pipe tobacco,<br \/>\n        Ben Hammersley is a journalist, a writer, and an errant developer of<br \/>\n        semantic web technology. He is about to give all us armchair bloggers<br \/>\n        a lesson in pro-active blogging. He is going to the source for his next<br \/>\n        story &#8211; Afganistan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So, anyway. I figure it&#8217;s about the time this nano-publishing journalism-of-the-future<br \/>\n        meme started to get off its collective bottom. So I&#8217;m off to Afghanistan<br \/>\n        for your education and pleasure. I fly to Islamabad tomorrow, and from<br \/>\n        there by train or bus to Peshawar. On Saturday I&#8217;ll be crossing the Khyber<br \/>\n        Pass and making my way to Kabul. All being well, technology and men-with-guns<br \/>\n        willing, I&#8217;ll be posting from every stop, and weblogging from Afghanistan<br \/>\n      for ten days or so. Movable Type meets Mujahedeen. It&#8217;s going to be fun.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhammersley.com\/index.html\">Sure<br \/>\n      sounds like it. Wish I could go. Stay tuned for the stories&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed only with a powerbook and some fine pipe tobacco, Ben Hammersley is a journalist, a writer, and an errant developer of semantic web technology. He is about to give all us armchair bloggers a lesson in pro-active blogging. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/21\/ben-hammersleys-dangerous-precedent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}