{"id":122,"date":"2008-11-14T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-11-14T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:55:28","slug":"a-shot-in-the-dark-from-the-heart-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2008\/11\/14\/a-shot-in-the-dark-from-the-heart-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"A shot in the dark from the heart of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a routine when I start up my day, absorbing &#8220;news&#8221; from around the web.\u00a0 It basically goes like this: call up Yahoo (for my subscribed-mail (this is the email address I use when buying\/registering\/sharing); Gmail (I forward all of my personal mail to Gmail); and an RSS newsreader.<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;News&#8221; is made up of different sources from different places.\u00a0 The idea is to learn what&#8217;s going on in my world &#8211; things relevant and interesting to me.\u00a0 This is made up of international, national, local, and &#8216;hyper-local&#8217; information; hyper-local being items concerning my friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, tools like Twitter and Facebook are helpful but there are those of us that like to manage that information a little differently &#8211; we choose to manage (and control and own) our own online presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"KPAO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kpao.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KPAO<\/a> is a site run by a few folks, including my friend Dave.\u00a0 They decided to collaborate on a single site rather than each hosting their own as a way to bring some variety to the content being delivered.\u00a0 The postings range in topics from product reviews to political thoughts to insights and ponderings about daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Dave tends to be the largest contributor of content, which is good as he&#8217;s the only one that I actually know running the site so the posts tend to be a little more relevant.\u00a0 He&#8217;s pretty opinionated and doesn&#8217;t hesitate to share his thoughts.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t always agree but when I don&#8217;t I still walk away with something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a routine when I start up my day, absorbing &#8220;news&#8221; from around the web.\u00a0 It basically goes like this: call up Yahoo (for my subscribed-mail (this is the email address I use when buying\/registering\/sharing); Gmail (I forward all of my personal mail to Gmail); and an RSS newsreader. My &#8220;News&#8221; is made up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2008\/11\/14\/a-shot-in-the-dark-from-the-heart-of-silicon-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A shot in the dark from the heart of Silicon Valley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-sites-fridays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}