{"id":1092,"date":"2005-07-12T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2009-07-26T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T07:04:48","slug":"six-apart-and-ideacodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/six-apart-and-ideacodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Apart and Ideacodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve moved several times in the last nine years &#8211; five moves, three states, and two coasts to be exact.\u00a0 Despite these environmental and physical shifts in my life, it\u2019s ironic that it\u2019s the bloggers from the virtual world (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">kottke<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hchamp.com\/\">hchamp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/\">joi ito<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooce.com\/\">dooce<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caterina.net\/\">caterina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightygirl.com\/\">mightygirl<\/a>, and many others) that have provided a sense of permanence and consistency while my life and surroundings have often changed radically.<\/p>\n<p>After almost ten years of making and remaking my personal site\/blog, my company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideacodes.com\/\">Ideacodes<\/a> is now helping design the next generation of blog services and products for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/\">Six Apart<\/a>, world\u2019s leading blog company.\u00a0  Six Apart was co-founded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/about\/history\/\">Mena and Ben Trott<\/a>, the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/movabletype\/\">Movable Type<\/a> (the software that launched millions of blogs) and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/typepad\/\">TypePad<\/a>.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019ve been in SF for a year, my two worlds (virtual and real) are coming together and I couldn\u2019t be more inspired or thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I talk to people I meet, clients, or the non-addicted, they\u2019ll ask, \u201cwhat\u2019s the big deal with blogs?\u201d For me, it\u2019s about the power to engage in what I think most people are after &#8211; self-expression, empathy, dialogue, multiple perspectives &#8211; the same core ideas on which democracy is based.\u00a0 At its most basic, it\u2019s the opportunity to experience other people\u2019s lives in asynchronous \u201creal\u201d time &#8211; a daily timeline paralleling your own life.\u00a0 It\u2019s also about the greater act of being both a consumer <em>and a producer<\/em> of culture.\u00a0 Once you start using your voice, you\u2019ll find you have a lot to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve moved several times in the last nine years &#8211; five moves, three states, and two coasts to be exact.\u00a0 Despite these environmental and physical shifts in my life, it\u2019s ironic that it\u2019s the bloggers from the virtual world (kottke, hchamp, joi ito, dooce, caterina, mightygirl, and many others) that have provided a sense of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[35,375,76,107],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-client","tag-ideacodes","tag-sixapart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}