{"id":245,"date":"2005-09-13T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=245"},"modified":"2005-09-13T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T18:51:07","slug":"joy-of-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/joy-of-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy of Linking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Johnson links to my blog in his new blog <a href=\"http:\/\/stemwinder.blogspot.com\/\">&#8220;Stemwinder&#8221;<\/a> (love the name). I&#8217;m gratified; I go to the blog; I read it; I look for the profile, of course; and like Alice confronted by her comestibles, I obey the implicit command in the &#8220;my web page&#8221; link and, well, click. Now I find a <a href=\"http:\/\/abjohnson.iweb.bsu.edu\/\">cabinet of wonders<\/a>: a fascinating website full of interesting images that are just clever enough (not too clever by half), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/abjohnson.iweb.bsu.edu\/BlogrollFall2005.html\">link to a blogroll<\/a> featuring Fred&#8217;s students this term. They&#8217;re all blogging. I click on one. The writing is interesting, the prompts are clever, and the mental link to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/phantomprof.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/writing-workshop-lesson-4-murdering.html\">Phantom Professor on Voice<\/a>&#8221; blog I just read (by following another of Fred&#8217;s links) starts to spark up interesting connections, like the one between a tortilla chip and the perfect strawberry cobbler cookie, as detailed by Malcolm Gladwell in the recent food edition of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> (blogged about in another context by <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2005\/09\/06.html#a1295\">Jon Udell<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I do not have time to read everything right now. I do have time to put Stemwinder and Phantom Professor on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/blog\/Gardner\">Bloglines blogroll<\/a>. All that said, here&#8217;s the heart of it, right now, for me: these links (traces of human attention and creativity that they are) encourage me and keep me pressing forward. Always time well spent when I get a bit of that good advice.<\/p>\n<p>NB: don&#8217;t miss Fred&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abjohnson.iweb.bsu.edu\/TaVVideos.html\">Tell-A-Vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Johnson links to my blog in his new blog &#8220;Stemwinder&#8221; (love the name). I&#8217;m gratified; I go to the blog; I read it; I look for the profile, of course; and like Alice confronted by her comestibles, I obey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/joy-of-linking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-3X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}