{"id":878,"date":"2013-07-21T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T09:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wood.nu\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-07-21T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:34:08","slug":"what-happened-to-getglue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Getglue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/07\/20130721-113045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130721-113045.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/07\/20130721-113045.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it came out a couple of years ago, I really liked <a href=\"http:\/\/getglue.com\/\">Getglue<\/a>. It was like Foursquare, only instead of posting that you were at a cafe or store, you posted what books you were reading, TV programs or films you had watched, radio programs listened to, or, if none of that quite fit, a topic that interested you at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did they reward posts with virtual &#8220;badges&#8221; they even promised to mail stickers of the badges. (That last was a bit iffy, I think out of five or six promised sticker mailings, I only got two. But they were still free, so hard to complain.)<\/p>\n<p>Getglue was always very America-centered, so they didn&#8217;t list things like BBC radio programs. And sometimes the book database was flakey, if I wanted to post that I was reading a brand new book, it often wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent months the service has deteriorated significantly. Suddenly radio, topics, and even books are gone, even current best-sellers like Dan Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Inferno&#8221;. All that&#8217;s left are movies and TV. Worse yet, there is an apparent new censorship. In connection with recent events in the Middle East, I wanted to post that I was watching the very excellent Al-Jazeera English. But even though I had posted about Al-Jazeera before, and could find that post in my feed, you can&#8217;t post about Al-Jazeera any more, it is gone from the database.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the far more biased Fox News is still there. This is a very troubling sign of censorship, social media should not impose their political positions on users.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-878\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">57.702128<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">18.370601<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it came out a couple of years ago, I really liked Getglue. It was like Foursquare, only instead of posting that you were at a cafe or store, you posted what books you were reading, TV programs or films&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=878\">Read more &rarr;<\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,113],"tags":[207,205,63,244,210,242,243,245,86,43],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}