{"id":744,"date":"2006-08-25T05:46:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T09:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2006\/08\/25\/myths-of-lists-and-linear-fame\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T05:46:19","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T09:46:19","slug":"myths-of-lists-and-linear-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2006\/08\/25\/myths-of-lists-and-linear-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths of lists and linear fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1294'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkplug9.com\/bizhack\/index.php\/2006\/08\/16\/a-lister-conspiracy-theories-and-dreams-of-easy-success\/\">good read<\/a> about myths online, readership, popularity, and the results.&nbsp; Nick Carr&#8217;s bit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_great_unrea.php\">the Great Unread<\/a>, presenting what I see as the slightly-off worldview, is nevertheless excellent writing.&nbsp; The recurring blog discussions on the topic, with their tinge of hysteira and self-absorption, are representative of a special flavor of our decade.&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t dream of anyone seriously claiming that today we don&#8217;t have access to digital printing presses onlnie &#8212; until&nbsp; I had seen it for the first time.&nbsp; (I suppose those doing so have only the rosiest ideas about what happens when you put together the text for a document and fire up your press and then have to go out and try distributing the results.)<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other news : <a href=\"http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/<\/a>&nbsp; is amazing.<br \/>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2006\/08\/superman_vs_wikis\/\">Superman loves wikis<\/a>.&nbsp; Go Supe!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.sparkplug9.com\/bizhack\/index.php\/2006\/08\/16\/a-lister-conspiracy-theories-and-dreams-of-easy-success\/'>Myths of lists and linear fame &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good read about myths online, readership, popularity, and the results.&nbsp; Nick Carr&#8217;s bit on the Great Unread, presenting what I see as the slightly-off worldview, is nevertheless excellent writing.&nbsp; The recurring blog discussions on the topic, with their tinge of hysteira and self-absorption, are representative of a special flavor of our decade.&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t [&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":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-null"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-c0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}