{"id":33483,"date":"2005-11-02T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/11\/02\/blog-design-as-a-form-of-reality-programming\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T09:58:49","slug":"blog-design-as-a-form-of-reality-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051102-49\/?p=33483","title":{"rendered":"Blog design as a form of reality programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On one of our internal blogging aliases, some people were interested in ways of making their blog look spiffier, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/max\/\"> Max<\/a> team&#8217;s blog was pointed out as an example of a &#8220;pimped out blog&#8221;. This in turn led to exchange of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jledgard\/archive\/2005\/01\/19\/356978.aspx\"> tips<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/stefan_gossner\/archive\/2005\/10\/22\/412918.aspx\"> tricks<\/a> and someone even proposed an informal  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/onair\/pimp_my_ride\/\"> Pimp My Blog<\/a> contest. What next? <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/extrememakeover\/\"> Extreme Blog Makeover<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/tlc.discovery.com\/fansites\/tradingspaces\/tradingspaces.html\"> Trading MSN Spaces<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one of our internal blogging aliases, some people were interested in ways of making their blog look spiffier, and the Max team&#8217;s blog was pointed out as an example of a &#8220;pimped out blog&#8221;. This in turn led to exchange of tips and tricks and someone even proposed an informal Pimp My Blog contest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-33483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>On one of our internal blogging aliases, some people were interested in ways of making their blog look spiffier, and the Max team&#8217;s blog was pointed out as an example of a &#8220;pimped out blog&#8221;. This in turn led to exchange of tips and tricks and someone even proposed an informal Pimp My Blog contest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}