{"id":4463,"date":"2006-03-30T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/03\/30\/metamania-romance-quiz\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:02","slug":"metamania-romance-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/03\/30\/metamania-romance-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"metamania romance quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine you’re a geek-dude weblogger really into metadata<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and you want to <\/FONT>impress a sweet young thing.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"SlowpokeMetamaniaS\"    <\/FONT>You say: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“My site reviews the best <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sites <\/FONT>that filter sites that pick <\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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up RSS <\/FONT>feeds from sites about <\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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Gourd Pottery.”<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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How does your heart’s desire respond?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Jen Sorensen<\/FONT><\/A>, of Slowpoke<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> Comics fame, knows.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Click to find out the answer<\/A>.  You’ll have to decide <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for yourself whether this is a match made in cyber-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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heaven.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Tiny check” Then, click to see the all four <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Maladies of the Information Age<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>,” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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which include– in addition to Meta-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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mania — Googlitis, Archi<\/FONT>vaholism, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and Compulsive News Binging.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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   Slowpoke<\/EM> is one more reason I always <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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   pick up my weekly Metroland<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Those who came here for socially-<\/FONT>significant <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and\/or legal issues, should check out <\/FONT>I\/P lawyer <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Paul Rapp’s column<\/A> “Irreconcilable Differ<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>ences<\/FONT><\/A>,” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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which applauds French efforts to force “every <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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maker and distributor of digital media to make <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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details of copy-protection schemes available to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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competitors, and to force interoperability among <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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digital formats.” (Metroland<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>, Volume 29 – Number <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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13 – <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>March 30, 2006)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"sleuthSm\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM> (March 31, 2006): The thoughtful Ed<\/EM>itor of Blawg Review<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sends along this cautionary tale: The Man She Forgot to Google<\/FONT><\/A>..<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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blind date tomorrow —
will she
Yahoo! me tonight?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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         <\/FONT>dagosan<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> at simply senryu<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Imagine you’re a geek-dude weblogger really into metadata, and you want to impress a sweet young thing.       You say: “My site reviews the best sites that filter sites that pick up RSS feeds from sites about Gourd Pottery.” How does your heart’s desire respond?    Jen Sorensen, of Slowpoke Comics fame, knows.  Click to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-19Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12708,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/12708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}