{"id":19187,"date":"2025-04-10T20:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19187"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:40:34","slug":"this-blog-may-become-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/04\/10\/this-blog-may-become-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of this blog were made &#8220;private&#8221;; about 800 posts remain online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>UPDATE In September 2025, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some of the posts here were out of date, needed updating or editing, or were just no longer relevant to the main purpose of this blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the winter of 2024\/25, I temporarily made all posts private but later restored about 800 of the original 2,500 posts. The number of posts may grow as I continue to occasionally add new items.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I restored some of the posts because they were linked from other sites (mine) and had interesting items worth sharing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Posts were removed because (a) they were out of date, (b) no longer relevant, (c) off topic for this blog, or (d) just didn&#8217;t make sense to keep them online anymore.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A side effect is many of you may land on &#8220;404 page not found&#8221; errors pages, typically if coming here from a search engine (how most arrive).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I post here as a place for searchable notes on various things I see &#8211; which lately is bad media reporting. This blog began as a place to track social media &#8220;stuff&#8221; including items shared that are not true &#8211; and how social media is used for frictionless propaganda messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog does not get a lot of visitors &#8211; a few dozen per day via online searches &#8211; plus lots of AI systems scanning and scraping content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There does not appear to be much use by real people. This blog has been published since 2014 but was not made public until mid-2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this blog is not read much, in 2025 I removed about 2,000 posts, leaving about 800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}