{"id":25,"date":"2004-12-04T23:58:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-11-14T02:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:01:47","slug":"grassroot-blogging-at-le-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Grassroot Blogging at Le Monde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em> has not only launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/web\/blogs\/0,2-3506,48-0,0.html\">reader blogs<\/a> under their own brand, but they&#8217;ve also allowed reader and journalist blogs to be presented at the same level, French blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loiclemeur.com\/english\/2004\/12\/le_monde_puts_r.html\">Lo?c Le Meur<\/a> reports. After two days of readers voting among the blogs to create a ranking, four reader-blogs are in the top-ten.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of competition is not new within the blogosphere, but appears more or less in every blogroll on the planet, aswell as on Technorati for example &#8211; but to my knowledge this is the first time it&#8217;s been done under the brand of a traditional newspaper. And that is indeed important news.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely its a bold move from the paper, and I really hope it the outcome is successful for all parties. It could very well be a way for the public sphere to be more inclusive, and open up for amateurs and professionals to work together toward a less hierarchic news production apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French newspaper Le Monde has not only launched reader blogs under their own brand, but they&#8217;ve also allowed reader and journalist blogs to be presented at the same level, French blogger Lo?c Le Meur reports. After two days of readers voting among the blogs to create a ranking, four reader-blogs are in the top-ten. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}