{"id":37064,"date":"2012-05-03T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-kardashian-is-a-unit-i-proposed-a-few-classes\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:39:20","slug":"the-kardashian-is-a-unit-i-proposed-a-few-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-kardashian-is-a-unit-i-proposed-a-few-classes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Kardashian is a unit I proposed a few classes back as a measure of attention. Conceptually, the Kardashian is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day. In an ideal, frictionless universe, we\u2019d determine a Kardashian by measuring the percentage of all broadcast media, conversations and thoughts dedicated to Kim Kardashian. In practical terms, we can approximate a Kardashian by using a tool like Google Insights for Search \u2013 compare a given search term to Kim Kardashian and you can discover how small a fraction of a Kardashian any given issue or cause merits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/an-idea-worth-at-least-40-nanokardashians-of-your-attention\/\">Ethan Zuckerman<\/a> at My Heart\u2019s in Accra.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/an-idea-worth-at-least-40-nanokardashians-of-your-attention\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An idea worth at least 40 nanoKardashians of your attention<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kardashian is a unit I proposed a few classes back as a measure of attention. Conceptually, the Kardashian is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day. In an ideal, frictionless universe, we\u2019d determine a Kardashian by measuring the percentage of all broadcast media, conversations [&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-37064","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-9DO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064","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=37064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}