{"id":976,"date":"2012-08-08T01:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-08-08T01:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:31:41","slug":"who-will-buy-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/08\/who-will-buy-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will buy the WELL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows what will become of the WELL, the venerable online community that erstwhile owners Salon.com have put on the auction block. One group of users is <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/07\/03\/well-users-pledge-more-than-1.html\">pledging cash<\/a> for a co-op buyout. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2012\/08\/the-well-corporation-community.html\">another group<\/a> has incorporated a for-profit entity that says it will raise capital to make a cash offer to SALN.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\"><br style=\"clear:both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=985eec3e3a9a74e6a549891611e383a5&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=985eec3e3a9a74e6a549891611e383a5&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&amp;adv=wouzn4v&amp;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/qz74AAGcYdA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via Boing Boing <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/08\/07\/who-will-buy-the-well.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/08\/07\/who-will-buy-the-well.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows what will become of the WELL, the venerable online community that erstwhile owners Salon.com have put on the auction block. One group of users is pledging cash for a co-op buyout. Now another group has incorporated a for-profit entity that says it will raise capital to make a cash offer to SALN. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/08\/who-will-buy-the-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who will buy the WELL?&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,201,6],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-boing-boing","tag-cory-doctorow","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-fK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}