{"id":6354,"date":"2017-12-21T05:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2017-12-21T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:17:39","slug":"reading-and-loving-micro-blog-and-micro-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/reading-and-loving-micro-blog-and-micro-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and loving: Micro.blog and Micro-Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But there is something about an informal collection of independent blogs by people with a shared passion that makes for a much better micro-community experience than social networks or other online group platforms. I\u2019ve experienced this first-hand with a couple of blogging communities I\u2019ve participated in: an informal network of blogs by adoptive parents and the pen and paper enthusiast blog community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micro.douglane.com\/2017\/12\/20\/microblog-and-microcommunities.html\">Micro.blog and Micro-Communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a huge amount of learning and pleasure out of both tightly bound and loose knit online communities. Doug\u2019s post shows how of a network of Blogs owned by individuals can be better than a silo and points out the need for hashtags or other connective tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Micro blogs with webmentions one part of improving the online conversation. A method or methods for discovery and group participation would be another.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/micro.blog\">micro.blog<\/a> enough. It has really helped me think about my online activity in many new ways. You can get involved for free and lose nothing by joining and playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there is something about an informal collection of independent blogs by people with a shared passion that makes for a much better micro-community experience than social networks or other online group platforms. I\u2019ve experienced this first-hand with a couple of blogging communities I\u2019ve participated in: an informal network of blogs by adoptive parents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,660,6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-enviable-stuff","7":"category-micro","8":"category-wwwd","9":"kind-note","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-1Eu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}