{"id":104,"date":"2011-05-27T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veracitek.net\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-05-27T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:28:58","slug":"the-real-web-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-real-web-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Web 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veracitek.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/noLink.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"noLink\" src=\"http:\/\/veracitek.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/noLink-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/noLink-280x300.jpg 280w, http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/noLink.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;nofollow&#8221; is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don&#8217;t understand what &#8220;nofollow&#8221; refers to you may have landed at the wrong blog. This is a technical blog. If you do know then perhaps you have turned it on automatically assuming it would help you fight spam? Well, let me contend that this was a mistake. If your loyal site contributors refer to a link then slapping them with a &#8220;nofollow&#8221; is just discourteous. If you honestly think that the &#8220;nofollow&#8221; tag will discourage spambots then think again. Has it really? There are much better anti-spam mechanisms available. This site for instance only lets through a bare minimum amount of spam without need for moderation. The spambots don&#8217;t even know that your site is adding &#8220;nofollow&#8221; to their posts. They just keep coming back and posting, over and over. A human being who is taking the time to participate in your community deserves the internet right to link to relevant content. It&#8217;s the basis of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>So think twice. Unless you want Facebook and Google to dictate all that is the future internet you may need to draw a line here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;nofollow&#8221; is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don&#8217;t understand what &#8220;nofollow&#8221; refers to you may have landed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[120,121,122,58,118,119,32],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bad-tech","tag-blogging","tag-community","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-nofollow","tag-spambots","tag-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}