{"id":31,"date":"2005-04-04T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.jpfco.com\/dir\/archives\/30"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:50:04","slug":"blogs-take-on-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/blogs-take-on-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs take on the mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Roberto Belo<br \/>\nBBC News website technology reporter <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Web logs or blogs are everywhere, with at least an estimated five million on the web and that number is set to grow. <\/p>\n<p>These online diaries come in many shapes and styles, ranging from people willing to sharing their views, pictures and links, to companies interested in another way of reaching their customers. <\/p>\n<p>But this year the focus has been on blogs which cast a critical eye over news events, often writing about issues ignored by the big media or offering an eye-witness account of events. <\/p>\n<p>Most blogs may have only a small readership, but communication experts say they have provided an avenue for people to have a say in the world of politics. <\/p>\n<p>The most well-known examples include Iraqi Salam Pax&#8217;s accounts of the US-led war, former Iranian vice-president Mohammad Ali Abtahi exclusive insight into the Islamic Republic&#8217;s government, and the highs and lows of the recent US election campaign. <\/p>\n<p>There are already websites pulling together these first-hand reporting accounts heralded by blogs, like wikinews.com, launched last November.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" title=\"Blogging Article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4086337.stm\">Read BBC Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roberto Belo BBC News website technology reporter Web logs or blogs are everywhere, with at least an estimated five million on the web and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}