{"id":4648,"date":"2011-01-17T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:30:41","slug":"becomes-more-informed-and-demanding-thanks-to-the-internet-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/01\/17\/becomes-more-informed-and-demanding-thanks-to-the-internet-forums\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;becomes more informed and demanding (thanks to the internet forums)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading up on a ridiculously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.home-barista.com\/reviews\/buyers-guide-to-vibiemme-domobar-super-t4019-20.html\">high-performance kitchen appliance<\/a>, I found this quote from a manufacturer: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between the year 2000 &#8211; 2001 the market conditions change, the end-user becomes more informed and demanding (thanks also to the internet forums) and a new class of consumer demands more performing machines<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see how this isn&#8217;t the case for every industry. Every consumer-producer feedback loop that is tightened by information technologies allows for both a more demanding consumer and a more efficient producer. Information, freely exchanged, is a net gain for the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading up on a ridiculously high-performance kitchen appliance, I found this quote from a manufacturer: Between the year 2000 &#8211; 2001 the market conditions change, the end-user becomes more informed and demanding (thanks also to the internet forums) and a new class of consumer demands more performing machines I don&#8217;t see how this isn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,5,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}