{"id":2237,"date":"2009-03-08T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2009-03-08T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:05:22","slug":"signs_of_respec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Respectability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more evidence that the geeks are taking over the national discourse, the Times is now running a weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/05\/introducing-the-new-york-times-graphic-books-best-seller-lists\/\">bestseller list for graphic novels and manga<\/a> in its ArtBeats blog. I give it another 9-12 months before we start seeing lists in the Times for the most watched streaming videos and bestselling e-books. And now I have another resource to fuel my only slightly out-of-control comic book purchasing habit. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the Times&#8217; blogs are becoming must-reads for me. Blogs like <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">The Caucus<\/a> (politics), <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Bits<\/a> (technology), and <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Economix<\/a> (economics with a practical twist) provide great supplements to the regular articles and links to other points of interest on the Web; exactly what good blogs should do. Plenty of newspapers, including the Times, are struggling to survive, but the Times seems to have a better grasp on how to use the medium of the Web to develop content (like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/magazine\/2009-inauguration-gallery\/index.html?hp\">photo profile of Obama&#8217;s staff<\/a>) that would be much more static and uninteresting in a traditional newspaper. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more evidence that the geeks are taking over the national discourse, the Times is now running a weekly bestseller list for graphic novels and manga in its ArtBeats blog. I give it another 9-12 months before we start seeing lists in the Times for the most watched streaming videos and bestselling <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2237' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}