{"id":4964,"date":"2015-07-15T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2015-07-15T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:03:12","slug":"from-a-books-internet-to-a-television-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/from-a-books-internet-to-a-television-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"From a books internet to a television internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426\">The web we need to save<\/a> is a post by Hossein Derakhshan, who is an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was jailed for 6 years, around <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hossein_Derakhshan\">questionable charges<\/a>. Finally pardoned, he returned\u00a0to the internet and\u00a0he shares some thoughts on how it&#8217;s changed.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when I started this blog, you sought and discovered new bloggers, content and shared them through posts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the internet pushes content to you, via feeds. Scrolling a feed is analagous to watching tv, as you spend more time with it more content comes to you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Stream, mobile applications, and moving images: They all show a departure from a books-internet toward a television-internet. We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication\u200a\u2014\u200anodes and networks and links\u200a\u2014\u200atoward a linear one, with centralization and hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking.<\/p>\n<p>When I log on to Facebook, my personal television starts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, is, to me indicative of the internet becoming mainstream as a media channel. To his point, it&#8217;s turning the internet into a television channel, rather than a book based internet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s compelling read, challenging and provoking. Let me know what you think, I&#8217;m still mulling it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web we need to save is a post by Hossein Derakhshan, who is an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was jailed for 6 years, around questionable charges. Finally pardoned, he returned\u00a0to the internet and\u00a0he shares some thoughts on how it&#8217;s changed. Indeed, when I started this blog, you sought and discovered new bloggers, content and shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}