{"id":167,"date":"2014-12-15T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-01-11T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:39:50","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-splot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/2014\/167","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened on the way to the splot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am happily chatting with gifadog&#8217;s boss on the ds106 radio pipes, running around ownership, keeping hold of your data or at least the control of it and the like. My predilections\u00a0\u00a0are v\u00a0aguely informed by a whole earth catalog style of diy self sufficiency, a\u00a0sense of fun around playing online, some powerful pieces by folk I respect, random tweets, blogposts\u00a0and\u00a0I think I&#8217;ve got it all down quite well. Then up pops a tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>CogDogBlogged: Try Out \/ Please Break TRU Writer? <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8pGEjkBym6\">http:\/\/t.co\/8pGEjkBym6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/splot?src=hash\">#splot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alan Levine (@cogdog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cogdog\/status\/543828128758366208\">December 13, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suggesting I try out this new place for writing, direct from the dog&#8217;s mouth I expect to land on some paradise where my identity is my own, the word link, through some\u00a0\u00a0automagical process, with the rest of my digital identity. Instead I am tapping out a message to the universe in a <em>medium<\/em> that I have little control of.\u00a0\u00a0It is pretty, but is it mine? When I finally click <strong>Save Draft<\/strong>, and find out how to publish, do I lose or win.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps it is not about wining or losing, ownership or silo, perhaps it is just about tapping the keys in the dark, hoping for a connection at the train moves though the winter&#8217;s night.<\/p>\n<p>It could be, sitting among the silent commuter crush, wrapped up in my own screen, that I don&#8217;t really care about this, that messages in bottles don&#8217;t need an sender&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am happily chatting with gifadog&#8217;s boss on the ds106 radio pipes, running around ownership, keeping hold of your data or at least the control of it and the like. My predilections\u00a0\u00a0are v\u00a0aguely informed by a whole earth catalog style of diy self sufficiency, a\u00a0sense of fun around playing online, some powerful pieces by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[38,39,40],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd-ideas","category-published","tag-domainofonesown","tag-ds106","tag-splot"],"splot_meta":{"author":"troutcolor","license":"","footer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}