{"id":173,"date":"2007-04-21T18:52:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:53","slug":"its-entering-a-crowded-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/04\/21\/its-entering-a-crowded-market\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;it&#8217;s entering a crowded market&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nice post over on Mashable  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/04\/21\/web-startups-and-the-lying-liars-that-lie-about-them\/\">Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them<\/a> &#8211; 10 &#8220;semi-truths&#8221; about new sites and the lies blog writers say about them. I particularly like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>#6: \u201cit needs more work\u201d. <strong>Truth:<\/strong> if there was a state before alpha, pre-alpha, and super pre-alpha, this site would be it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe we need the same for museum websites&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway. I&#8217;ve been working on my &#8220;museums are like over-protective parents to their web content&#8221; metaphor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we force our content to stay at home&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>yes, we&#8217;ll be reassured to know where it is and what it&#8217;s doing but it&#8217;ll never get a chance to form its own identity<\/li><li>we&#8217;ll never give it the chance to meet different content and mash it up together in a dank nightclub out there in the big world somewhere.<\/li><li>it&#8217;ll get fat, complacent and socially inept<\/li><li>it&#8217;ll continue to think it&#8217;s the best content in the world and one day it&#8217;ll escape and realise that everyone else stopped wearing Doc Marten&#8217;s about 100 years ago<\/li><li>instead of earning a crust, it&#8217;ll keep eating our food, drinking our pop and generally getting in the way<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As (unfortunately) Sting once wrote. &#8220;If you love your content&#8230;.set it free&#8221;. Or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice post over on Mashable &#8211; Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them &#8211; 10 &#8220;semi-truths&#8221; about new sites and the lies blog writers say about them. I particularly like #6: \u201cit needs more work\u201d. Truth: if there was a state before alpha, pre-alpha, and super pre-alpha, this site would be it. &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;it&#8217;s entering a crowded market&#8230;&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/04\/21\/its-entering-a-crowded-market\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;it&#8217;s entering a crowded market&#8230;&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}