{"id":286,"date":"2007-05-17T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2007\/05\/the-new-influencers-in-the-merc.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T11:03:00","slug":"the-new-influencers-in-the-merc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/the-new-influencers-in-the-merc\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Influencers in the Merc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Mercury News&#8217; Dean Takahashi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/columns\/ci_5911139\">devotes a column to The New Influencers <\/a>today. Takahashi, who&#8217;s reported for The Wall Street Journal among other journals, touches on several key points from the book and notes that a former colleague of his, <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.roj.as\/\">Peter Rojas<\/a>, went on to become a millionaire and a poster child of blogging success. He asks playfully (and a bit ruefully) if there&#8217;s still time for him to become a new influencer with his popular <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mercurynews.com\/aei\/category\/gaming\/\">gaming blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean took the time to speak to me at some length on Monday evening. He also read the entire book, a fact that is both flattering and impressive in this continuously distracted world. It&#8217;s a thrill to be cited in such an important newspaper and by a reporter whose work I respect so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Mercury News&#8217; Dean Takahashi devotes a column to The New Influencers today. Takahashi, who&#8217;s reported for The Wall Street Journal among other journals, touches on several key points from the book and notes that a former colleague &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/the-new-influencers-in-the-merc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[761],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}