With the passing of Michael Jackson I became painfully aware that the whole blog thing<\/em> was dead:<\/p>\n Number of people who mentioned the King of Pop’s passing from my 52 followers: 50 The numbers are telling. The party is over.<\/p>\n Within an our of MJ’s death TMZ was reporting (via their blog) that the internet was “maxed out” with Tweets and Facebook updates. I guess TMZ had nothing else to report at that moment.<\/p>\n I’m not saying that blogs will end as of today, but it’s pretty obvious the whole online meme of confessing your soul out to the universe has moved on to faster pastures. The personal blog is on the downturn. Which, to me, is a bit sad. Not that I’m bashing Twitter or Facebook, but I do see these mediums as being limited and distracting when getting your full feelings and thoughts out.<\/p>\n Much like a car horn: Twitter is great to get your attention. Annoying when the hand stays on the button.<\/p>\n You have to remember I’ve lived through Geocities and Webrings. I’ve seen this stuff come and go in waves. <\/p>\n Me? When it comes to blogging I’m going to be like that last guy at the party, scraping out the room temperature bean dip with shards of crackers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the passing of Michael Jackson I became painfully aware that the whole blog thing was dead: Number of people who mentioned the King of Pop’s passing from my 52 followers: 50 Number of mentions of the one gloved icon’s demise from my blogroll: 2 The numbers are telling. The party is over. Within an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-149","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNumber of mentions of the one gloved icon’s demise from my blogroll: 2<\/p>\n