{"id":34587,"date":"2021-12-30T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34587"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:54:25","slug":"the-mac-observer-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/the-mac-observer-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac Observer, Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@DaveHamilton\/8be23aadd63f\">Dave Hamilton<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveHamilton\/status\/1476571234712408066\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@DaveHamilton\/8be23aadd63f\"><p>In December 1998, Bryan Chaffin and I co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/\">The Mac Observer<\/a>. And now, 23 years later&#8230; the site was acquired.<\/p><p>This next step in the site&rsquo;s evolution is a good one. Dr. Serhat Kurt has long been a fan of The Mac Observer in addition to having some web publishing experience of his own. Dr. Kurt is the Publisher of macReports, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology, President of SECK Inc., and a university professor from Chicago. But don&rsquo;t let all the fancy credentials fool you; during this process I&rsquo;ve gotten to know Serhat as a really great guy. His interest in acquiring The Mac Observer matches our own goals for the site: to grow The Mac Observer and help this site we love continue to thrive well into the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hamilton (tweet): In December 1998, Bryan Chaffin and I co-founded The Mac Observer. And now, 23 years later&#8230; the site was acquired.This next step in the site&rsquo;s evolution is a good one. Dr. Serhat Kurt has long been a fan of The Mac Observer in addition to having some web publishing experience of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-30T16:54:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"254d0a19-276b-4292-8643-2f10e8bcd79b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-30T16:54:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJU0KGSdrQpKGQy8Q6LzXmw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,31,30,994,96],"class_list":["post-34587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-media","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34588,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587\/revisions\/34588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}