{"id":88,"date":"2011-05-19T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T02:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-05-19T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T02:27:41","slug":"rip-blippy-yippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/rip-blippy-yippy\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Blippy? Yippy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch reports &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/05\/19\/the-end-of-blippy-as-we-know-it>The End Of Blippy As We Know It<\/a>&#8220;. Good riddance, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. In spite of the fact that I love the word &#8220;Blip&#8221; (my cousin and siblings and I have had a running joke about it for decades) I&#8217;ve always thought Blippy was a weird concept. It was a social networking site where you would share your credit card transaction details with your friends. My privacy antennae went up big-time on that. Who would want to share that kind of information with friends on a social network? Maybe one or two personal friends, if you need someone to keep you accountable if you&#8217;ve been spending too much money. But is there really a huge market for that kind of thing? Social networking thrives on scalability. As the TechCrunch articles points out, &#8220;almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases.&#8221; The reason why? &#8220;Sharing purchases with friends doesn\u2019t solve a problem.&#8221; Neil Postman was fond of saying &#8220;What is the problem for which [this new technology] is the solution?&#8221; and if there wasn&#8217;t a problem, he wouldn&#8217;t adopt the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch reports &#8220;The End Of Blippy As We Know It&#8220;. Good riddance, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. In spite of the fact that I love the word &#8220;Blip&#8221; (my cousin and siblings and I have had a running joke about it for decades) I&#8217;ve always thought Blippy was a weird concept. It was a social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}