{"id":307,"date":"2005-12-26T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=307"},"modified":"2005-12-26T17:17:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T00:17:54","slug":"free-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/free-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"free ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>okay, for free and about free &#8211;<br \/>\nhere&#8217;s what I want &#8211;<br \/>\nwish list for 2006 blogging if you like &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ability to date each entry the way I want (with or without the date, with or without the time)<\/li>\n<li>entries that don&#8217;t say &#8220;uncategorized&#8221; if they are uncategorized (in fact I think I&#8217;ll remove the category tag completely)<\/li>\n<li>archives that come up with the images<\/li>\n<li>archives that come up with the full text<\/li>\n<li>tablet that lets me handwrite my entry and post immediately (as a jpg? well okay if you must)<\/li>\n<li>upload that lets me upload multiple images at a time<\/li>\n<li>a &#8220;previous entries&#8221; link that works<\/li>\n<li>something that understands the need to swap out the header image easily and often<\/li>\n<li>blogging software that makes no assumptions whatsoever about your social relationships as a human being<\/li>\n<li>immediate &#8220;template builders&#8221; that allow you to set up rigorous formal constraints (taking Harry Mathews&#8217;s 20 lines a day as the most simple, but moving on from there to sonnet\/variations and haibun\/variations)<\/li>\n<li>to take it a step further, allow you to immediately transgress the rigorous formal constraints you establish for yourself<\/li>\n<li>tabbed blogging environment that let different projects go on simultaneously, swapping out and interfeeding amongst themselves (this might already be possible, but it&#8217;s hard to be that fertile\/compartmentalized)<\/li>\n<li>blogging environment that allows you to choose backgrounds that resemble different pieces of paper (lines, unlined, scrap, textured, yellow, graph, postcard, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>and while we&#8217;re at it, allows you to choose different media (text, image, sound, movie, combination) without opening 12 different software programs and then struggling struggling to format the result in some comprehensible way<\/li>\n<li>special icon-like stamps that you can affix at random to your entries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experiencing the frustration of the borderland<br \/>\nbetween what I want to do and what I can do<br \/>\nwith canned blogging software<\/p>\n<p>Bemoaning my lack of interest or ability to<br \/>\nprogram it<\/p>\n<p>Happiness to be entering a new year transformed<br \/>\ninto urge for electronic housekeeping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>okay, for free and about free &#8211; here&#8217;s what I want &#8211; wish list for 2006 blogging if you like &#8211; ability to date each entry the way I want (with or without the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}