{"id":231,"date":"2009-04-01T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-04-01T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:46:56","slug":"in_which_the_guardian_is_as_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/04\/in_which_the_guardian_is_as_us\/","title":{"rendered":"In which &#8216;The Guardian&#8217; is as usual my hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i>The Guardian <\/i>today: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/theguardian\">the Guardian<\/a><br \/>\ntoday announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to<br \/>\nbe published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/socialnetworking\">social networking<\/a> service that has transformed online communication&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the<br \/>\nnewspaper&#8217;s archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets.<br \/>\nMajor stories already completed include &#8220;1832 Reform Act gives voting<br \/>\nrights to one in five adult males yay!!!&#8221;; &#8220;OMG Hitler invades Poland,<br \/>\nallies declare war see tinyurl.com\/b5x6e for more&#8221;; and &#8220;JFK assassin8d<br \/>\n@ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At a time of unprecedented challenge for all print media, many<br \/>\npublications have rushed to embrace social networking technologies.<br \/>\nMost now offer Twitter feeds of major breaking news headlines, while<br \/>\nthe Daily Mail recently pioneered an iPhone application providing users<br \/>\nwith a one-click facility for reporting suspicious behaviour by<br \/>\nmigrants or gays&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/apr\/01\/guardian-twitter-media-technology\">Continue reading<\/a> to learn about the launch of <i>Gutter<\/i>,  &#8220;an experimental service designed to filter noteworthy liberal opinion from the cacophony of Twitter updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian today: Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication&#8230; A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}