{"id":40255,"date":"2011-05-02T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:14:58","slug":"a-blog-and-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/02\/a-blog-and-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"A blog and Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2011\/05\/02\/from-the-birth-of-blogging-to-the-death-of-bin-laden\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+DiscoverIntersection+(The+Intersection)\">Chris Mooney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The news stream of the country just shifted dramatically. I was up late last night, putting on hold an article deadline, unable to take my eyes off CNN\u2013and remembering what it was like to be in D.C. on 9\/11, huddled in a hotel watching the news, and then for more than a month afterwards, as we were all additionally terrorized by the anthrax mailings.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging itself was largely born in the wake of 9\/11\u2013the fear and the insatiable demand for news and information, combined with the Internet, set the stage. I started blogging shortly afterwards when I and others created Tapped, the blog of the American Prospect magazine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>People will rightly point out that the tech blogosphere <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/toc.html\">was robust well before 9\/11<\/a>. But I think it is valid to assert that the non-tech blogosphere&#8217;s coming of age was really 9\/11. Many of the prominent bloggers today (<a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/\">Matt Yglesias<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/megan-mcardle\/\">Megan McArdle<\/a> for example) come out of the &#8220;warblogger&#8221; milieu of that period (whether pro or anti &#8220;warblogger&#8221;). Myself, I began blogging a few weeks before Chris at <i>Tapped<\/i> on a pre-GNXP weblog I had for all of two months, from April to May of 2002. At that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mooney:<br \/>\nThe news stream of the country just shifted dramatically. I was up late last night, putting on hold an article deadline, unable to take my eyes off CNN\u2013and remembering what it was like to be in D.C. on 9\/11, huddled in a hotel watching &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-osama-bin-laden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40444,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40255\/revisions\/40444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}