{"id":4067,"date":"2004-05-29T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2004-05-29T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2004-05-29T15:12:37","slug":"catching_up_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4067","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m catching up on a few days of blog reading while I switched to a new machine.  Here&#8217;s a few things that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/leo.typepad.com\/tlr\/2004\/05\/last_call.html\">Goodbye TechTV<\/a>.  Leo writes about the last day of Call for Help and leaves some thoughts on the merger.  Personally, I have no idea what kind of crack Comcast\/G4 is smoking.  From all I can see they&#8217;re doing their best to alienate most of the TechTV audience.  One thing I always liked about TechTV was that they had stuff for everyone.  G4 feels like it is targetted towards the 15-25 year old crowd.  At first I thought it was kind of charming, but it quickly got on my nerves.  Biggest missed opportunity?  Not bringing over a Call for Help and not bringing over a Tech Live, a daily tech news show.  Rumor has it their own weekly news show will be going daily, but not until July.  I dunno, I&#8217;d think if you suddenly owned a network like TechTV, which has been experiencing strong growth in the past year, you&#8217;d want to keep some of that audience.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unix-girl.com\/blog\/archives\/001472.html\">Kasia talks about The Day After Tomorrow<\/a>.  This is one I kind of want to see just for the special effects.  From everything I&#8217;ve heard the movie itself was pretty lame beyond that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004\/05\/things-that-make-you-blog-part-one.asp\">Neil Gaiman talks about Fred the Unlucky Black Cat being sick<\/a> and inspires a small poem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.megacity.org\/archives\/001753.php\">Derek has found that Alpha-Bits may be no more<\/a>.  Dammit, I used to love those (even though I&#8217;m more of a Special K guy myself these days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, time to get out and get some fresh air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m catching up on a few days of blog reading while I switched to a new machine. Here&#8217;s a few things that jumped out at me: Goodbye TechTV. Leo writes about the last day of Call for Help and leaves some thoughts on the merger. Personally, I have no idea what kind of crack Comcast\/G4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}