{"id":63,"date":"2020-02-09T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/?p=33"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:43:36","slug":"why-twitter-is-evil-and-blogs-are-good","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/why-twitter-is-evil-and-blogs-are-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Why twitter is evil and blogs are good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title an exaggeration I use twitter<\/a>, but
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Twitter is an easy to use and popular tool. I use it myself. But: It is a commercial operation with obligations to shareholders. My pupils can’t post to it (without breaking the law). I don’t control it. I can’t, easily, move my content elsewhere. Although I post to our school account I wonder if we should be encouraging our pupils to use it without some discussion…<\/p>\n

See also algorithms and<\/p>\n

When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as example.com\/ideas. These links are permanent<\/a> and will always work.<\/em><\/p>\n

IndieWeb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title an exaggeration I use twitter, but Twitter is an easy to use and popular tool. I use it myself. But: It is a commercial operation with obligations to shareholders. My pupils can’t post to it (without breaking the law). I don’t control it. I can’t, easily, move my content elsewhere. Although I post to … Continue reading Why twitter is evil and blogs are good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowblogsintro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}