{"id":1006,"date":"2007-12-11T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/11\/what-is-a-blog-in-plain-english\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:36:29","slug":"what-is-a-blog-in-plain-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/11\/what-is-a-blog-in-plain-english\/","title":{"rendered":"“What is a blog” – In Plain English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stumbled across a neat video, explaining what a blog is and what the big deal is about them these days<\/a>. It’s a really good video, too – it does a really good job of explaining (to the non-technical enthusiast audience) why blogs are so popular (and so important).<\/p>\n

I highly recommend giving it a view, and passing it on to people you know as well. Knowledge is power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stumbled across a neat video, explaining what a blog is and what the big deal is about them these days. It’s a really good video, too – it does a really good job of explaining (to the non-technical enthusiast audience) why blogs are so popular (and so important). I highly recommend giving it a view,… Continue reading “What is a blog” – In Plain English<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,38],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-blog","tag-video","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-ge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5691,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2021\/12\/12\/no-holiday-letter-this-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1006,"position":0},"title":"No Holiday Letter This Year","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"There will be no end-of-year holiday letter for 2021 from us...","rel":"","context":"In "personal"","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3010,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/04\/10\/keiths-anime-reviews-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":1006,"position":1},"title":"Keith’s Anime Reviews: Air","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Keith's review of the anime (based off of the visual novel game) \"Air.\"","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/air-misuzu-hair-with-feathers-300x215.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/04\/on-being-a-programmer-in-a-world-of-non-programmers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1006,"position":2},"title":"On Being a Programmer in a World of Non-Programmers","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This post over at The Daily WTF struck a chord with me. 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