{"id":730,"date":"2009-10-29T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/wits-end-an-author-describes-the-things-she-loves-and-hates-about-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:41:35","slug":"wits-end-an-author-describes-the-things-she-loves-and-hates-about-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2009\/10\/29\/wits-end-an-author-describes-the-things-she-loves-and-hates-about-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wit\u2019s End &#8211; An Author Describes the Things She Loves (and Hates) About the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>Here&#8217;s something I love: I love all the new words.  <em>Pwned<\/em>.  <em>Squicked<\/em>.  <em>Knollish<\/em>.  Words are great.  There can never be enough of them.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something I hate: the emoticon.  I don&#8217;t understand why the same words if written in a letter will easily convey the writer&#8217;s intention, but if written in an email require the punctuation of a happy  face.  I&#8217;m not arguing that this isn&#8217;t the case.  I&#8217;ve watched it happen many times; most of the email dust-ups I&#8217;ve been involved in started because something meant as a joke was taken as serious comment.  So I see the emoticons are useful.  And still I loathe them.  Nor do I like LOL, ROFL, 4EVA, and the rest of that ilk.  A clich\u00e9 is still a clich\u00e9, no matter how quickly you deliver it. <\/p>\n<p>I love the blogs, but only the blogs I love and only if I don&#8217;t have to do one myself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/blog\/?p=6241#more-6241\">powells.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yes! Very well put! <\/p>\n<p>The rest is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/blog\/?p=6241#more-6241\">http:\/\/www.powells.com\/blog\/?p=6241#more-6241<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/ahniwa.posterous.com\/wits-end-an-author-describes-the-things-she-l\">The Imposterous Wa<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I love: I love all the new words. Pwned. Squicked. Knollish. Words are great. There can never be enough of them. Here&#8217;s something I hate: the emoticon. I don&#8217;t understand why the same words if written in a letter will easily convey the writer&#8217;s intention, but if written in an email require the [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}