{"id":1,"date":"2009-09-14T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-14T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:12:55","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/2009\/09\/14\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to LIBR 559M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting this blog for discussion of social media in a class I&#8217;m taking at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC. I&#8217;ve been interested in social media for some time and I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing ideas with my colleagues in class and with others.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from participating in some online communities over the last few years I got into reading some of the literature about social media and the changes in communication (and in our daily lives!) being brought about by the development of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I think to start off I&#8217;ll just share a few links I like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/file-sharing_social.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clay Shirky &#8211; File Sharing Goes Social<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been an avid music collector for many years and I&#8217;ve been a staunch defender of P2P technology and its possibilities for greater sharing and understanding of music and other forms of art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shirky.com\/writings\/powerlaw_weblog.html\">Clay Shirky &#8211; Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was interesting to me because it sheds light on the dynamics of online communities and outlines how participation on the web works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">Metafilter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A community blog that covers all sorts of subjects. This blog is a bit different because of its wide variety of contributors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have this blog all set up in a bit. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting this blog for discussion of social media in a class I&#8217;m taking at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC. I&#8217;ve been interested in social media for some time and I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing ideas with my colleagues in class and with others. Aside from participating in some online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rcosco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}