{"id":404,"date":"2009-09-01T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T05:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/?p=404"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:06:26","slug":"uh-crisis-lets-go-secondhand-shopping-is-that-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/uh-crisis-lets-go-secondhand-shopping-is-that-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh, crisis&#8230; let\u2019s go (secondhand) shopping! Is that how it works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I looked a the web-stats for last week nothing really jumped to my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>But then I took a second look, and suddenly this pattern emerges: among the many very different sites which experience a growth in activity, a few stood out. And stood out in clusters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> recruitment-sites did above average (some did 10 times above average)<\/li>\n<li> secondhand-shopping sites a la ebay (which operates through its subsidiary dba.dk in Denmark) showed above average growth<\/li>\n<li> consumer news sites (guides, tests and the lot) did above average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It struck me that a general pattern emerged. All of these clusters of sites are connected to how you, me and everybody gets the most out of our economic situation. Can I find a new job, if my company gets into trouble and lay me off? Can I buy the new bicycle or the fashion designer bag secondhand, and try not to splash out to hard? And how can I save money from savings on light-bulps, on a new gas-friendly car or by rearranging the loans I have taken in my house?<\/p>\n<p>Is it, that the internet in this way lets you know that Danes are increasingly crisis-aware, and that they use the internet to handle their situation, grasping the empowerment, all these sites provides, trying to take your situation in your own hands?<\/p>\n<p>Read on in this weeks analysis: <a href=\"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/?p=396\" target=\"_blank\">Digital view: Life on the Danish Internet, August 24-30, 2009 &#8211; recruitment and secondhand shopping<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I looked a the web-stats for last week nothing really jumped to my eyes. But then I took a second look, and suddenly this pattern emerges: among the many very different sites which experience a growth in activity, a few stood out. And stood out in clusters: recruitment-sites did above average (some did 10&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/uh-crisis-lets-go-secondhand-shopping-is-that-how-it-works\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">L\u00e6s mere &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uh, crisis&#8230; let\u2019s go (secondhand) shopping! Is that how it works?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}