{"id":1612,"date":"2007-11-29T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/29\/getting-activecom\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T16:33:49","slug":"getting-activecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/29\/getting-activecom\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting active.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon this site today called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\">active.com<\/a>, which bills itself as a gathering spot for people with active lifestyles. I figured heck, there must be a lot of hikers around there. I was right, though there wasn&#8217;t much actual content for  hikers.<\/p>\n<p>The site&#8217;s main navigation rail lists these main categories &#8212; baseball, basketball, cycling, football, golf, outdoors, running, soccer, softball tennis, triathlon &#8212; so, presumably, it intends to serve folks who do this stuff. I got curious and searched on the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.active.com\/people\">site&#8217;s member profiles<\/a> to see what folks are into. The count:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Running: <\/strong>1,726<\/li>\n<li><strong> Triathlon:<\/strong> 739<\/li>\n<li><strong> Cycling:<\/strong> 604<\/li>\n<li> Mountain biking: 335<\/li>\n<li> Hiking: 331<\/li>\n<li> Walking: 303<\/li>\n<li><strong> Soccer:<\/strong> 217<\/li>\n<li><strong> Baseball:<\/strong> 198<\/li>\n<li><strong> Basketball:<\/strong>193<\/li>\n<li><strong> Golf: <\/strong>218<\/li>\n<li><strong> Football: <\/strong>177<\/li>\n<li><strong> Tennis:<\/strong> 173<\/li>\n<li><strong> Softball:<\/strong> 144<\/li>\n<li> Snowboarding: 140<\/li>\n<li> Climbing: 127<\/li>\n<li> Surfing: 83<\/li>\n<li> Skiing: 80<\/li>\n<li> Fishing: 29<\/li>\n<li> Snowshoeing: 22<\/li>\n<li> Backpacking: 3<\/li>\n<li> Hunting: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Main categories in bold. Turns out the site&#8217;s all about serving active people, but its prime categories leave out the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-most popular activities. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>The site says it&#8217;s in beta and who knows where it&#8217;ll end up; I\u00a0 just found it interesting that the site wants to serve all these people who play team sports, but the folks who actually sign up are heavily into individual activities (also intriguing to see soccer ahead of baseball, football and basketball).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon this site today called active.com, which bills itself as a gathering spot for people with active lifestyles. I figured heck, there must be a lot of hikers around there. I was right, though there wasn&#8217;t much actual&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/11\/29\/getting-activecom\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[139,505,137,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}