{"id":689,"date":"2006-02-19T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2006-02-23T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T03:34:50","slug":"blogs-to-infinity-beyond-meritocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Blogs to Infinity… Beyond Meritocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On everyone’s reading list should be a substantial article online in New York Magazine’s<\/em> Metro section titled “Blogs to Riches – The Have and Have-Nots” (Link<\/a>). It’s penned by Clive Thompson – a name that is becoming increasingly familiar to many of us, I’m sure. Consequently I don’t want to get into the article as it speaks for itself. Rather I’d suggest people read it and give some thought to the word “meritocracy<\/a>“; it pops up a couple times and I suspect we’ll be hearing that word more and more this coming year. So much so that it may end up on some linquist club’s “Word of the Year” list (if it hasn’t already).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On everyone’s reading list should be a substantial article online in New York Magazine’s Metro section titled “Blogs to Riches – The Have and Have-Nots” (Link). It’s penned by Clive Thompson – a name that is becoming increasingly familiar to … Continue reading →<\/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-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}