{"id":369,"date":"2005-03-13T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/13\/the-more-time-people-spend-online-the-more-interested-in-politics-they-become\/"},"modified":"2005-03-13T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T20:07:00","slug":"the-more-time-people-spend-online-the-more-interested-in-politics-they-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-more-time-people-spend-online-the-more-interested-in-politics-they-become\/","title":{"rendered":"The more time people spend online, the more interested in politics they become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of any energy from me, check out Tim Worstall&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.typepad.com\/timworstall\/2005\/03\/britblog_roundu_2.html\">Britblog Roundup<\/a> &#8211; it features a couple of things from this very site, so it must be good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as us bloggers (and apparently our readers) are all so omphaloskepsisary, this article from the Sunday Times on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1522594,00.html\">the growth of e-politics<\/a> may be of interest. Apparently, &#8220;the more time people spend online, the more interested in politics they become&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Either fascinating or a load of old bollocks, depending on your point of view.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and in case you didn&#8217;t spot it, today&#8217;s Word To Make You Sound Pretentious was omphaloskepsis &#8211; the act of contemplating one&#8217;s own navel, or navel-gazing)<\/p>\n<p><b>Just past midnight update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/obscurer.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blow-up.html\">Good, if entirely unrelated, stuff from The Obscurer<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;nothing short of complete totalitarianism, a sort of The Prisoner meets 1984, can prevent terrorists from murdering people if they are determined to, and if the intelligence just isn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you haven&#8217;t already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backingblair.co.uk\/unbelievable\/\">watch this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of any energy from me, check out Tim Worstall&#8217;s latest Britblog Roundup &#8211; it features a couple of things from this very site, so it must be good&#8230; Oh, and as us bloggers (and apparently our readers) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-more-time-people-spend-online-the-more-interested-in-politics-they-become\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}