{"id":606,"date":"2006-03-15T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2006-03-15T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T19:57:44","slug":"guardian_launches_huffingtones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/guardian_launches_huffingtones\/","title":{"rendered":"guardian launches huffingtonesque group blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cif_header.gif\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/cif_header.gif\" width=\"347\" height=\"35\" \/><br \/>\nLiving up to its reputation as the most innovative newspaper on the web, the Guardian yesterday launched an ambitious group blogging experiment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/index.html\">comment is free<\/a> &#8211; that brings together a broad range of public intellectual types in a daily deluge of commentary and debate. Better designed than its <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2006\/02\/guardian_comment_blog.html\">acknowledged<\/a> model, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, &#8220;comment is free&#8221; consists of three columns: new posts on the left, editors&#8217; picks in the center, and links to the Guardian&#8217;s formal opinion pages on the right.<br \/>\nThere are a few other tidbits: a political cartoon at the bottom of the page and a <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/danchung\/index.html\">photo blog<\/a>. Also this small nod toward the paper&#8217;s heritage, tucked beneath the cartoon, reminding us that comment may be free&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"butfactsaresacred.gif\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/butfactsaresacred.gif\" width=\"412\" height=\"59\" \/><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s CP Scott, <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">The  Guardian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/information\/theguardian\/story\/0,,1038110,00.html\">founder<\/a> and editor for its first 57 years (it should read <i>18<\/i>21)<\/span> editor of The Guardian for 57 years beginning in 1872. This ties again to Jay Rosen&#8217;s post on newspapers as <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2006\/03\/13\/sder_blogs.html\">&#8220;seeders of clouds.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living up to its reputation as the most innovative newspaper on the web, the Guardian yesterday launched an ambitious group blogging experiment &#8211; comment is free &#8211; that brings together a broad range of public intellectual types in a daily deluge of commentary and debate. Better designed than its acknowledged model, The Huffington Post, &#8220;comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,317,784,837,967,1155,1292],"tags":[2590],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-clouds","category-guardian","category-huffingtonpost","category-journalism","category-media","category-newspaper","tag-journalism-newspaper-media-guardian-huffingtonpost-blogosphere-clouds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}