{"id":381,"date":"2001-02-07T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2001-02-07T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=381"},"modified":"2001-02-07T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2001-02-07T08:54:22","slug":"interesting-to-read-evs-blow-by-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/02\/07\/interesting-to-read-evs-blow-by-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"interesting to read Ev&#8217;s blow-by-blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>interesting to read Ev&#8217;s blow-by-blow account of his fight to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\">Blogger<\/a> alive and kicking. It&#8217;s as if the poor guy is clinging onto the wall of the abyss by just his fingernails, and (as I&#8217;m re-reading it at the moment) reminds me of Douglas Coupland&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006548598\/qid=981539750\/sr=1-2\/202-8027786-8275000\">Microserfs<\/a><\/i> and their battle with &#8220;Oop!&#8221;.<br \/>\nActually, I can&#8217;t help but think that Microserfs may actually be part of the inspiration for the whole weblog culture anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>interesting to read Ev&#8217;s blow-by-blow account of his fight to keep Blogger alive and kicking. It&#8217;s as if the poor guy is clinging onto the wall of the abyss by just his fingernails, and (as I&#8217;m re-reading it at the moment) reminds me of Douglas Coupland&#8217;s Microserfs and their battle with &#8220;Oop!&#8221;. Actually, I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}