{"id":758,"date":"2005-09-01T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/09\/affluent_interconnections\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T14:32:51","slug":"affluent_interconnections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/affluent_interconnections.php","title":{"rendered":"Affluent interconnections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyrule.net\/\">They Rule<\/a> lets users map the interconnections of corporations and board members, suggesting the dense cross-influence of a few people on a lot of money and corporate activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyrule.net\/2004\/index.php%3Fmapid=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/theyrule.gif\" height=\"122\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" alt=\"They Rule\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Cooler still, users can build their own maps to explore different connections (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyrule.net\/2004\/index.php%3Fmapid=3\">like this one<\/a>, showing connections between <i>New York Times<\/i> board members, and the other companies they represent).<\/p>\n<p>They Rule is intended as social commentary. But it would also be fascinating to see such an interconnection map for any community&#8217;s nonprofit board members. I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;d see a dense network of the same faces, governing a full range of public resources. Good or bad? I don&#8217;t know. But interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web site They Rule lets users map the interconnections of corporations and board members, suggesting the dense cross-influence of a few people on a lot of money and corporate activity. Cooler still, users can build their own maps to explore different connections (like this one, showing connections between New York Times board members, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}