{"id":32240,"date":"2014-12-04T23:56:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/one-day-as-i-was-working-on-this-story-i-received\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:56:51","slug":"one-day-as-i-was-working-on-this-story-i-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/one-day-as-i-was-working-on-this-story-i-received\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>One day as I was working on this story, I received an email from TaskRabbit\u2019s vice-president of marketing, Jamie Viggiano. \u201cWe saw your recent posting on Craigslist to interview Taskers about their experiences using our service,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was weird, because I didn\u2019t post anything on Craigslist (although I had posted on a Reddit TaskRabbit forum). \u201cPlease know that it is our policy that all journalists work through TaskRabbit Corporate for these requests. We\u2019d be happy to coordinate interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also reached out to a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford who was studying peer-to-peer economics, with a focus on TaskRabbit. She was willing to talk\u200a\u2014\u200auntil she checked with the company, after which she was not. Viggiano told me she would handle the interview instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/hunting-task-wabbits-c60679bad0f6\">Hunting Task Wabbits \u2014 Matter \u2014 Medium<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day as I was working on this story, I received an email from TaskRabbit\u2019s vice-president of marketing, Jamie Viggiano. \u201cWe saw your recent posting on Craigslist to interview Taskers about their experiences using our service,\u201d she wrote. Well, that was weird, because I didn\u2019t post anything on Craigslist (although I had posted on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8o0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}