{"id":5228,"date":"2014-12-17T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2014-12-17T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:34:31","slug":"crowdfunding-for-bristolians-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5228","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding for Bristolians only"},"content":{"rendered":"

What could have been a fine report on a local space technology story has been ruined by poor writing in the Bristol Post. <\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Post carried a story<\/a> on Bristol SpacePlanes<\/a> and its efforts to develop a reusable orbital vehicle.<\/p>\n

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A CGI impression of the Bristol SpacePlanes Ascender craft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Post’s journalist gets off to a bad start in the first sentence:<\/p>\n

Bristolians are being invited to help launch planes into space in a new crowd-funding [sic] campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just Bristolians, Bristol Post?<\/p>\n

I thought the idea of crowdfunding (minus the hyphen. Ed.<\/em>), was that anyone can be part of the crowd that provides the funds, irrespective of geography.<\/p>\n

This suspicion is borne out by 30 seconds research. The first item on crowdfunding I found, from Wikipedia<\/a>, states: “Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Nowhere in the Wikipedia entry is there is indication at all that crowdfunding is to be restricted solely to Bristolians.<\/p>\n

Or am I just misreading to local media’s propensity to find a local angle to a story? Here’s a hint: it already has one, featuring a local high technology company and doesn’t need a second one! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What could have been a fine report on a local space technology story has been ruined by poor writing in the Bristol Post. Yesterday’s Post carried a story on Bristol SpacePlanes and its efforts to develop a reusable orbital vehicle. The Post’s journalist gets off to a bad start in the first sentence: Bristolians are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17,9],"tags":[40,36,22,33,23],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}