{"id":1429,"date":"2007-04-03T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/publish-or-perish\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T05:55:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T10:55:03","slug":"publish-or-perish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/publish-or-perish","title":{"rendered":"Publish or perish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone wants to get his words in print. At the trade magazine publishing company where I work, it&#8217;s become far less of a thrill for me &#8212; my 10th anniversary is next month &#8212; but the associate editors and freelance writers always get a jolt when they\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 see their first byline.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that drive to get your words and thoughts out in the public can be a bitch. For me, I&#8217;ve found that this blog is a pretty good outlet. It&#8217;s not suitable for everything I want to write, but it gives me a good forum for exploring the world, sharing neat or funny links, and opining (okay, ranting).<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to wonder: if we had blogs 15 years earlier, would the Unabomer\/Unabomber have been so focused on getting his manifesto published? Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2007\/04\/dayintech_0403\" target=\"_blank\">11th anniversary in captivity<\/a>, Mr. Kaczynski!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone wants to get his words in print. At the trade magazine publishing company where I work, it&#8217;s become far less of a thrill for me &#8212; my 10th anniversary is next month &#8212; but the associate editors and freelance writers always get a jolt when they\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 see their first byline. Still, that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/publish-or-perish\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish or perish?&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-n3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-anniversary","url_meta":{"origin":1429,"position":0},"title":"Happy Anniversary","author":"Gil","date":"February 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I want to write about writing today. 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