{"id":268,"date":"2008-06-14T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T07:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-06-14T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T07:19:46","slug":"changing-the-world-one-amazon-review-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/changing-the-world-one-amazon-review-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the world one Amazon review at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a handful (literally) of reviews on the Amazon website.  I didn&#8217;t even remember that I had, but I just now had to post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/R3ATE8LB0SGU9T\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\">one about the new James Bond book<\/a> so I returned to the site.<br \/>\nIn looking over my reviews, I see that I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/R29CVZY13OBVJF\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\">a one sentence review of Microsoft Excel<\/a> a year ago. Here&#8217;s what I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why would anyone pay over \u00a3170 for a piece of software which does nothing more than Open Office.org does &#8212; and OpenOffice.org is completely free of charge?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nearly a year later, someone posted a comment on my review (I didn&#8217;t realize you could do this).  It&#8217;s worth repeating here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is so true &#8211; I dowloaded openoffice on reading this and it is very good. converts all your old word or .xls files and is easy to use with the same functionality of office. plus I am quids in as was about to spend \u00a3180 on Excel. Major mistake if I had done that! Great post Eric.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One more convert to free software &#8212; won over by a review on Amazon.  <em>I wonder what else we can use Amazon reviews for?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a handful (literally) of reviews on the Amazon website. I didn&#8217;t even remember that I had, but I just now had to post one about the new James Bond book so I returned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}