{"id":5727,"date":"2011-07-13T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/13\/poll-blogging\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:06:35","slug":"poll-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/13\/poll-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Doug Natelson <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoscale.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/follow-up-and-blogger-drop-off.html\">noted a drop-off in active physics blogs<\/a>. This had not gone unnoticed hereabouts, though I couldn&#8217;t immediately think of what to say about that. Yesterday, though, former ScienceBlogs wrangler Christopher Mims provided a possible answer: Google+ has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/mimssbits\/26986\/?p1=blogs\">destroyed blogging completely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would&#8217;ve liked to find a way to tie all this together into a deep and meditative blog post about the nature of blogging and the reasons for the decline of physics blogging specifically (to the extent that this is a decline, which is somewhat debatable). I have a faculty meeting to go to this morning, though (Yes, in the summer. Shoot me now.), so all you get is this silly radio-button poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/5230251.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/5230251\/\">Is blogging dead?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>This is a classical poll, so please cast only one vote at a time. And if you know of (or write) new and notable physics-oriented blogs, feel free to leave a link in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Doug Natelson noted a drop-off in active physics blogs. This had not gone unnoticed hereabouts, though I couldn&#8217;t immediately think of what to say about that. Yesterday, though, former ScienceBlogs wrangler Christopher Mims provided a possible answer: Google+ has destroyed blogging completely. I would&#8217;ve liked to find a way to tie all this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/13\/poll-blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: Blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}