{"id":854,"date":"2007-06-29T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/are-blogs-becoming-irrelevant.html"},"modified":"2007-06-29T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:34:10","slug":"are-blogs-becoming-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Are blogs becoming irrelevant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 around 2000 different people per day read my blogs in Spanish and English.\u00a0 Now around 15000 people do.\u00a0 In 2005 everyone who read my blog, actually read my blog.\u00a0 Now around 5000 really read my blog, around 10,000 get the feeds of different kind that I supply and I don\u00b4t really know if they read my blog.\u00a0 Also my new blog design and all the new features I have are lost to all on RSS readers.\u00a0 These visitors probably only read a portion of what I write highlighting it in their Netvibes or iGoogle.\u00a0 Now how can I complain if I do the same with other blogs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/martinvarsavsky\">my favorite RSS reader?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the future, should us bloggers just write feeds, forget about design and not even bother writing beyond the portion of the article that normally gets highlighted by a cursor?\u00a0 Is our attention span going down to that?\u00a0 I know mine is, and I am worried.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=854\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 around 2000 different people per day read my blogs in Spanish and English.\u00a0 Now around 15000 people do.\u00a0 In 2005 everyone who read my blog, actually read my blog.\u00a0 Now around 5000 really read my blog, around 10,000 get the feeds of different kind that I supply and I don\u00b4t really know if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}