{"id":2156,"date":"2013-10-12T03:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/12\/2013-10-11-well-that-settles-it-html\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T03:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:02:47","slug":"2013-10-11-well-that-settles-it-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/2013-10-11-well-that-settles-it-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Settles It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5a24a280e45a7c6cc6f5e27d\/5ada7ae2c4997ba0fc862517\/5ada7ae3c4997ba0fc862fad\/1524271327607\/metropolis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Remember earlier when we had a little discussion about <a href=\"\/home\/2013\/10\/11\/difficulties-technical-and-otherwise.html\">Google losing interest in Blogger<\/a>? It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/10\/google-will-soon-put-your-face-name-and-content-in-its-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re very interested<\/a>, for reasons that I&#8217;m not very interested in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google revealed its shared endorsements scheme in a change to its terms of service. The updates state that going forward, friends, family, &ldquo;and others&rdquo; may see a user&rsquo;s Google profile name, photo, and any endorsement they&rsquo;ve created for a company alongside ads for that company. For instance, if Jon Brodkin gave the new Nickelback album 5 stars and said in a review that the band is &ldquo;the voice of our generation,&rdquo; the next time someone searches for that album, Brodkin&rsquo;s rating and praise could appear alongside a sponsored placement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to hold a pillow over the mirror on Blogger until it stops squirming.<\/p>\n<p>Good night, Blogger site. Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Friends, Remember earlier when we had a little discussion about Google losing interest in Blogger? It turns out that they&#8217;re very interested, for reasons that I&#8217;m not very interested in. Google revealed its shared endorsements scheme in a change to its terms of service. The updates state that going forward, friends, family, &ldquo;and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/2013-10-11-well-that-settles-it-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well, That Settles It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-housekeeping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}