{"id":670,"date":"2004-09-21T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/09\/21\/hooked-on-blogs\/"},"modified":"2004-09-21T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T16:55:30","slug":"hooked-on-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/21\/hooked-on-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooked on blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article by Maud Newton<\/a> about the blogging obsession in the latest issue of Maisonneuve<\/a>:<\/p>\n

« I awoke three hours later and hustled off to my day job. Scanning the news sites and Web logs to see what I\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdd missed, I slapped up three more posts and read through sixty new email messages before my boss appeared at the door.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdDo you have that article for me yet?\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd she asked.<\/p>\n

In a single motion, I minimized Internet Explorer, opened the appropriate database and rooted around for the case she\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdd assigned me the previous afternoon. I hadn\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdt even looked at it. \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdAlmost,\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd I said, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdbut not quite. It\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds more complicated than I thought.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/p>\n

I may flout office conventions more than most, but the majority of the bloggers I follow also spend a significant chunk of their workdays updating their sites. A friend who\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds the proprietor of the popular blog The Minor Fall, The Major Lift (TMFTML, for short) told the New York Observer last fall, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdI\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdm actually curious as to what people did in offices before the Internet. My theory is that every job only requires about thirty minutes of hard work a day and the rest is bullshit.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd He may be exaggerating, but only slightly. For those lacking corporate ambition, who are unfulfilled by office chatter and obsessive about subjects unrelated to their work, blogs are a good way to fill company downtime. »<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article by Maud Newton about the blogging obsession in the latest issue of Maisonneuve: « I awoke three hours later and hustled off to my day job. Scanning the news sites and Web logs to see what I\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdd missed, I slapped up three more posts and read through sixty new email messages… Continue reading Hooked on blogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}