{"id":5179,"date":"2009-08-03T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2009-08-03T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:50:23","slug":"this-just-in-from-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5179","title":{"rendered":"This Just In From HR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bad news:\u00a0 “Bogus Doug” Williams is shutting down <\/a>Bogus Gold<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is a bit of a whack upside the local blog scene’s head.\u00a0 BoGo <\/em>has always been a great place for high-quality writing that doesn’t always mine the same topics, over and over again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He’s got the same reasons an awful lot of solobloggers have for backing out:<\/p>\n

Surveying the scene now it’s a lot different than it was. It looks to me like the era of the small personality driven “boutique” blog, covering all the topics that may interest an individual blogger of no particular celebrity, is coming to an end.<\/p>\n

This may not be an entirely bad thing. The ending of this particular blog era seems to stem from the availability of so many more<\/em> options for doing that sort of thing than used to exist. You no longer need to set up your own personal blog to share all your interests and thoughts with the world. There’s Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other new social media which are better designed around individual personalities, and do a much better job connecting you to people who may care about what you have to say. I\u2019ve tried them out myself, and while they don\u2019t seem to suit me as well as a good old blog, I can definitely see their appeal and suitability for the things they\u2019re made for.<\/p>\n

This is a long way of saying I’ve decided to shut down this blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK – the good<\/em> news?\u00a0 Doug will be blogging here <\/em>at Shot In The Dark<\/em>.\u00a0 I made Doug the same offer I made Johnny Roosh about a year ago; “it’d be a shame to see you not blogging; do whatever you want at Shot<\/em>, whenever you want.\u00a0 Once a month, once a day, whatever”.\u00a0 I’m happy to say Doug accepted.<\/p>\n

I guess that means we need a staff meeting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bad news:\u00a0 “Bogus Doug” Williams is shutting down Bogus Gold. Which is a bit of a whack upside the local blog scene’s head.\u00a0 BoGo has always been a great place for high-quality writing that doesn’t always mine the same topics, over and over again.\u00a0 He’s got the same reasons an awful lot of solobloggers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}