{"id":279,"date":"2010-08-11T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:43:40","slug":"talking-of-stroking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2010\/08\/11\/talking-of-stroking\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking of stroking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m currently somewhat vexed by The Borg, I mean Nature Network. Kristi made an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/rpg\/2010\/08\/06\/on-nature-network-again#comment-62752\">insightful comment<\/a> on my latest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n@ Cath: We need a good collective noun for blogs. A navelgaze?<\/p>\n<p>I suggest a &#8220;stroke&#8221; of blogs, which could refer to genius, insight, lightning, ego, or &#8230; other things. In some cases I would also recommend the collective noun &#8220;bloat&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a stunning demonstration of one of the many things wrong with Nature Network, here is a snapshot of the &#8216;Featured Posts&#8217; this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Featuring your own stuff\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/images\/Featured.png\" title=\"Featuring your own stuff\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"286\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Never mind the good writers making interesting posts, let&#8217;s tell the world how incompetent we are. At least they&#8217;ve finally got rid of the months old Local Hubs blog calling for new writers in Boston. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m whingeing. Deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m currently somewhat vexed by The Borg, I mean Nature Network. Kristi made an insightful comment on my latest: @ Cath: We need a good collective noun for blogs. A navelgaze? I suggest a &#8220;stroke&#8221; of blogs, which could refer to genius, insight, lightning, ego, or &#8230; other things. In some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}