{"id":560,"date":"2009-07-16T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:26","slug":"media-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Media matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the Twitter feed of my publisher, Marshall Cavendish, since I started Twittering, not all that long ago. I didn&#8217;t realize that they have a Facebook page, too, until just now I looked at their website for some reason and saw a &#8220;Find Us on Facebook&#8221; button. So I did, became a fan,and saw to my surprise that of MC&#8217;s recent posts&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php?sid=109561841134&amp;h=Pvv5v&amp;u=V-v8A&amp;ref=mf\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php<\/a>&#8211;was about a 10-book YA series on Forensics, for which I&#8217;ve written 9 of the titles. (Okay, some of them aren&#8217;t finished yet, but 4 are out and look great.)<\/p>\n<p>All of which made me realize that:<\/p>\n<p>1) I am spending more time than I expected to do on LJ, FB, and Twitter<\/p>\n<p>2) I like finding out about things that way, and I should start using those tools more intelligently<\/p>\n<p>3) Marshall Cavendish&#8217;s little FB post is about 40,000 times better-looking than my own two crapulous websites, which are the Internet equivalent of tarpaper shacks and waaaay overdue for a makeover. Which in turn has made me resolve that when I get back from Iceland I will either learn how to build a decent website and do so, or pay someone to do it. I&#8217;d love to launch shiny redesigned sites with a splash about the Human Evolution series, which is coming off press soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the Twitter feed of my publisher, Marshall Cavendish, since I started Twittering, not all that long ago. I didn&#8217;t realize that they have a Facebook page, too, until just now I looked at their website for some reason and saw a &#8220;Find Us on Facebook&#8221; button. So I did, became a fan,and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}