{"id":264,"date":"2003-11-06T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T08:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=264"},"modified":"2003-11-06T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T08:03:26","slug":"dublin-media-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/dublin-media-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin: Media mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I caught the bug for RSS syndication of my site, I found this cool RSS site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localfeeds.com\/\">LocalFeeds<\/a> that allows you to track down all the sites within a specific geographic area.  This site has accidentally made a New Media Mecca of my neigborhood, because one of my neighbors is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmediamusings.com\/\">J.D. Lasica <\/a>of New Media Musings fame.<\/p>\n<p>If you<a href=\"http:\/\/www.localfeeds.com\/near\/?postal=94568&#038;dist=5\"> click on this link <\/a>you&#8217;ll see all the blogs within five miles of my zip code that have configured their sites to create these local feeds.  See, I told J.D. about LocalFeeds the other day, so of course he was hot to include his site as well. And because LocalFeeds is so new &#8212; and because certain obscure coding must be added to one&#8217;s blog to make it work &#8212; this little part of California has become Ground Zero for media talk. But only if you click on the LocalFeeds link. <P>This seemed like a cool illustration of how early adopters of technology create certain illusions because they&#8217;re the only ones using the technology. <P><br \/>\nBy the way, I live in Dublin and J.D. lives in Pleasanton, two sister suburbs about 40 miles from San Francisco. There&#8217;s nothing much out here but hills, subdivisions,  chain stores and the Interstate. But who knows where it could go now that we&#8217;ve made it an Important Media Destination?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I caught the bug for RSS syndication of my site, I found this cool RSS site called LocalFeeds that allows you to track down all the sites within a specific geographic area. This site has accidentally made a New&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/dublin-media-mecca\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}