{"id":378,"date":"2007-11-09T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/martin-geddes-i-solemnly-do-declare"},"modified":"2007-11-09T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T21:31:14","slug":"martin-geddes-i-solemnly-do-declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/martin-geddes-i-solemnly-do-declare\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Geddes: I Solemnly Do Declare"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I hereby do notify the world that I shall not join any form of online service that has any of the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requires me to work out who my friends are.<\/li>\n<li>Asks me to approve you as a friend before we can communicate.<\/li>\n<li>Sends me an email to tell me someone didn&#8217;t send me an email.<\/li>\n<li>Wants me to register before I can contribute.<\/li>\n<li>Wants me to write a constant narrative of my life just in case someone unspecified wants to read it.<\/li>\n<li>Expects me to manually give my availability or location for any reason.<\/li>\n<li>Endorses products to others based using my name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coming next:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any non-commercial site that doesn&#8217;t use OpenID and wants me to create yet another username and password. (And you can guess which qualifier I&#8217;ll be dropping after that.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, my Facebook account is closed. (And if you invite me to join a Facebook group, I won&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telepocalypse.net\/archives\/001106.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have come a long way if people can make statements like that. Take note, while Martin is an alpha-thinker, many will follow him before too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby do notify the world that I shall not join any form of online service that has any of the following features: Requires me to work out who my friends are. Asks me to approve you as a friend before we can communicate. Sends me an email to tell me someone didn&#8217;t send me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}