{"id":6289,"date":"2016-10-25T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2016-10-31T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:13:05","slug":"linked-rating-the-silos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/linked-rating-the-silos\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Rating the silos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2016\/08\/26\/ratingTheSilos.html\">via Scripting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The point: we could come up with a Consumer Reports-like rating for all sites that indicates how much they participate in the open web at a content level.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a truly brilliant idea. We\u2019re now a web full of silos. Some of these mean &#8211; well but don\u2019t do much for us and others truly have a \u201cown it all\u201d mentality for greed or simply shareholder approvals but if we knew which silos were the best of the worst, it might inform and educate the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Scripting: The point: we could come up with a Consumer Reports-like rating for all sites that indicates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-10-31T19:13:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"df76c23a-05de-4832-83bf-e585ff153aee","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-10-31T19:13:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A33bCOgXeSDKDv-WF_xU67g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Dr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6494,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/the-way-the-web-used-to-be\/","url_meta":{"origin":6289,"position":0},"title":"The Way the Web Used to Be","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I was listening to the Internet History Podcast with the founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus and I was feeling really nostalgic and it sort of had me thinking about the past and how the web used to before, let\u2019s face it, the mainstream population ruined it. 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