{"id":276,"date":"2005-03-24T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/03\/24\/blogging-quantity-and-quality\/"},"modified":"2005-03-24T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T04:58:18","slug":"blogging-quantity-and-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200503\/blogging-quantity-and-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Quantity and Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swami, in the guise of Lakshmi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/03\/22\/notice-of-change-of-nomenclature\/#comment-1894\">asks<\/a>  if  I am trying to &#8220;mass produce&#8221; my blogging. He also helpfully links to  <a href=\"http:\/\/lakshmir.blogspot.com\/2004_06_01_lakshmir_archive.html#108724140930592491\">his wife&#8217;s post<\/a> where she opines that if creative work is subject to mass production, its quality suffers.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe implication of course, is that my blogging quality has declined, and the cause is the recent spurt in posts. <\/p>\n<p> I do agree that mass production is bad for creative work. My blogging quality <i>might<\/i> have declined recently. But the two aren&#8217;t related.  I am not blogging under pressure of a deadline. I am not paid by number of posts. If I am posting something, it is because I <i>wanted<\/i> to post that item. So the decline in blogging quality (if there is one) cannot be blamed on mass production.  <\/p>\n<p>But then  the thing about mass production for non-creative goods is that it gives you uniform quality &#8211; not uniformly <i>good<\/i> quality. That implies that if you are willing to put up with non-mass production, you should expect inconsistent quality. Sometimes I&#8217;ll be good. Sometimes I&#8217;ll be really bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swami, in the guise of Lakshmi, asks if I am trying to &#8220;mass produce&#8221; my blogging. He also helpfully links to his wife&#8217;s post where she opines that if creative work is subject to mass production, its quality suffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}