{"id":6713,"date":"2008-10-28T07:13:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2008-10-28T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T15:13:16","slug":"bloggers-invade-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6713","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers Invade L.A. Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ulken.com\/2008\/10\/27\/backchannel-on-blogging\/\">Eric Ulken writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you put a bunch of bloggers in a room, feed them pizza and moderate a discussion on their craft? You end up with two real-time conversations: One in the physical room and the other in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=twitterverse\">Twitterverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that&rsquo;s no surprise to those who populate this corner of cyberspace, but as a newbie here &mdash; and, until recently, an admitted Twitter skeptic &mdash; I have to say it was pretty fun to watch a virtual dialogue unfold alongside the real-world one, as <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23onala\">it did last Thursday night<\/a> at the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31711671@N04\/2969425051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"363\" width=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237\" title=\"Luke Ford at ONA gathering at the L.A. Times\" src=\"http:\/\/ulken.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lukeford.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=37632873645\">ONA gathering on blogging<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31711671@N04\/\">pix here<\/a>) drew about 60 people to the Harry Chandler Auditorium for an informal talk with L.A. bloggers including <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/?p=6573\">Luke Ford<\/a>&nbsp;(pictured) and the Times&rsquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/ticket\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Ulken writes: What happens when you put a bunch of bloggers in a room, feed them pizza and moderate a discussion on their craft? You end up with two real-time conversations: One in the physical room and the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[13673,13844,29812,822,750,13843],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-andrew-malcolm","tag-harry-chandler","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-luke-ford","tag-rsquo","tag-time-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}