{"id":587,"date":"2006-01-24T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-01-26T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T00:12:00","slug":"linking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Linking In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve tried to stay mostly outside the social spaces that are forming online everywhere because  a) I wanted to stay objective as I watch them develop and b) I wanted to pick the right one (or two) so that I avoided duplicity. If people reading this are like me, they have far too many email accounts with which to deal. The explosion in these mostly-cloistered networks (sounds like a contradiction in terms) seems like another potential &#8220;account juggling act&#8221; in the making; I&#8217;m visualizing all these networks as outdated spaghetti code. Not good. However the first enticement was a combination of an old invite from CBC columnist and friend <a href=\"http:\/\/tinman.typepad.com\/about.html\" target=\"blank\">Sue Braiden<\/a> and a recent, irresistable topic thread over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omidyar.net\/home\/\" target=\"blank\">Omidyar.net<\/a>. Those two together finally got me to finally join the network late last week. And now, having received an invitation from long-time design accomplice and fellow alum Anthony DeMore to join his online network at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\" target=\"blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>, I succumbed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this isn&#8217;t a bad thing.  Might be time to see how things operate from the inside. Now where&#8217;s the fire alarm (just joking).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve tried to stay mostly outside the social spaces that are forming online everywhere because a) I wanted to stay objective as I watch them develop and b) I wanted to pick the right one (or two) so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}