{"id":2452,"date":"2014-10-10T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2014-10-10T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:53:30","slug":"dispatch-from-the-trenches-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/dispatch-from-the-trenches-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the Trenches #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2014-08-22-Not-the-Twitter-We-Want-but-its-the-Twitter-we-Deserve.html#the-tent-is-in-the-jargon-cupcake\">Not the Twitter We Want, but it&#8217;s the Twitter we Deserve<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\n  As the social survivors of \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d gorge themselves on gifted youth they start to move further away from being things people enjoy. They become business-degree-managed sameness.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sit back, grab your icy beverage and get comfortable. Joe makes a lot of really great points here in his dissertation on Twitter. I appreciate his dive into the world of Tent\/Cupcake as well. I played with Tent a bit and realized I do not possess a <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxbeard.com\/\">Linux Beard.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/grampaandgrandmasterflash.tumblr.com\">Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Facebook loves to be helpful. It will auto-complete anyone you tag. <strong>Anyone.<\/strong> This has led to some hilarious mistaggings of <em>Grandma<\/em> to <em>Grandmaster Flash<\/em> turning the rapper into possibly the most caring, lovable rapper of all time.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GrandmasterFlash-1.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"Grandmaster Flash 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GrandmasterFlash-2.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"Grandmaster Flash 2\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36615187\">Brown M&amp;Ms<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/36602364?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=669966\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story of Van Halen&#8217;s Brown M&amp;M line in the contract rider was not a sign of rock star excess. The Brown M&amp;Ms were there as a quick way to check if the promoter had read the contract rider.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting story because it&#8217;s legend has grown for so long and made sense in the context of huge rock stars touring the country. It was a brilliant move to combat unsafe conditions and as an early warning that the setup of the shows would take much longer and cost more.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the Twitter We Want, but it&#8217;s the Twitter we Deserve As the social survivors of \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d gorge themselves on gifted youth they start to move further away from being things people enjoy. They become business-degree-managed sameness. Sit back, grab your icy beverage and get comfortable. Joe makes a lot of really great points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Dispatch from the Trenches #12 has M&Ms, Twitters and Grandma--ster Flash!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[286],"tags":[649,30,731,729,31,730],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared","tag-dispatch-from-the-trenches","tag-facebook","tag-grandmaster-flash","tag-mm","tag-twitter","tag-van-halen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}