{"id":325,"date":"2003-05-10T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2003\/05\/10\/blog-fad-bust-up-at-blhe-central\/"},"modified":"2003-05-10T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T09:16:13","slug":"blog-fad-bust-up-at-blhe-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2003\/05\/10\/blog-fad-bust-up-at-blhe-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog-fad bust-up at BLHE Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a16'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>As to whether and how the blog infatuation is different from <STRONG>technology crushes <\/STRONG>of earlier decades, see the fight breaking out at the main blhe blog, between optimists like Dave Winer (who has <A href=\"http:\/\/www.longbets.org\/2\" title=\"Long Bet on the future Googlerank of blogs v. the NYT\">$1000 riding<\/A> on the success of blog-journalism) and John Palfrey who think we have a good chance of seeing the <STRONG>NH primary<\/STRONG> influenced by local blogs, and&nbsp;cynics like Seth Finkelstein and MSNBC&#8217;s Jon Bonne who have seen these promises of pending&nbsp;revolution so many times before it pains them.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Then go look in the mirror and tell me how the productivity tools you use every day fundamentally change your output.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t mean that cynically &#8212; when PZ and Gil Pratt tell me that <STRONG>emacs<\/STRONG> has <EM>doubled<\/EM> their output over the course of their lives, I believe them, and expect it&#8217;s an <STRONG>understatement <\/STRONG>&#8212; just look in the mirror first and&nbsp;make sure you believe what you are about to say.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/discuss\/msgReader$312?mode=day'>Blog-fad bust-up at BLHE Central &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As to whether and how the blog infatuation is different from technology crushes of earlier decades, see the fight breaking out at the main blhe blog, between optimists like Dave Winer (who has $1000 riding on the success of blog-journalism) and John Palfrey who think we have a good chance of seeing the NH primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-5f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}