What happens to a blog post?
Lance on Jan 31 2008 at 3:39 pm | Filed under: Blogs, Lance's Page, Technology
When I finish typing this and hit publish, the blog will send out a ping, and then the enters the strange ecosystem of the internet:
Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.
Click here for a interactive, graphic picture of this strange world.
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