{"id":20,"date":"2003-11-21T23:54:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-01-28T01:59:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T15:59:50","slug":"blogs-and-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Blogs and logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that blogs are a bit like digital soundings charting one&#8217;s course through an ocean of thought. How appropriate then, that the idea of keeping log books derives from a navigational technique that relied on nodal soundings to record one&#8217;s speed through the ocean. In a type of navigation called <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.minn.net\/~keithp\/dr.htm\">&#8216;dead reckoning&#8217;<\/a> the technique relied on one throwing a log, or wooden board overboard from the stern (or back) of the vessel, the board being attached to a rope. The rope had series of knots tied at 7 fathom (6 feet to a fathom = 42foot\/12.5metre) intervals. Each knot, paid out from the reel over a period of 30 seconds (as measured by a sand glass) represented a speed of one nautical mile per hour. Observations were made whenever the wind changed in velocity or direction, and recorded in a book &#8211; called &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; the log book! (neat eh?) The distance (calculated by speed over time) and direction were plotted onto a chart, and thus one could navigate without recourse to the stars or a visible land mass.<\/p>\n<p>The knots represent digital nodes, the wind changes: the threads of discussion or thought; the chart, the great canvas of ideas &#8211; So perhaps blogs are a kind of chart of ideas!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that blogs are a bit like digital soundings charting one&#8217;s course through an ocean of thought. How appropriate then, that the idea of keeping log books derives from a navigational technique that relied on nodal soundings to record one&#8217;s speed through the ocean. In a type of navigation called &#8216;dead reckoning&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}