{"id":368,"date":"2006-10-29T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T08:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-10-29T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T08:31:31","slug":"will-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Will this work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Changing blog has a scheme (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/005175.html\">Help us Hack the Publishing System<\/a>) to raise the profile of their new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/book\/\"><b>Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century<\/b><\/a> [by Alex Steffen, Al Gore (Foreword), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)], involving a mob purchase at Amazon at 11:11 (PST) on 1 November. I was havering about purchase myself, but this plot brings me to the brink. $22.50 to stick it to &#8230;erm&#8230; the publishing world? Probably worth it for the warm fuzzy feeling, and who knows? Maybe the blurb is right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Worldchanging<\/b> is poised to be the <b>Whole Earth Catalog<\/b> for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, <b>Worldchanging<\/b> is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Changing blog has a scheme (Help us Hack the Publishing System) to raise the profile of their new book Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century [by Alex Steffen, Al Gore (Foreword), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)], involving a mob purchase at Amazon at 11:11 (PST) on 1 November. I was havering about purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}