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  • The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits -- to You

    You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. 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... more

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  • Rated by moritherapy on Sep 04 2008, 7:00am

    You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. 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. Let's say it's Super Bowl Sunday and you're blogging about beer. You see Budweiser's blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you'd like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people -- and Budweiser, its competitors, beer lovers, ad critics, and your ex-boyfriend can listen in. "You just need to know how to type," says Matthew Hurst, an artificial intelligence researcher who studies this ecosystem at Microsoft Live Labs. Here's how the whole process goes down during the big game.

  • Rated by nowsourcing on Feb 12 2008, 7:07am

    lifecycle of a blog post - interactive chart

  • Rated by expressitwrite on Feb 07 2008, 2:05pm

    What happens when you post to your blog? Move around this interactive graphic to get a taste of what's happening behind the scenes.

  • Rated by SvetlanaG on Feb 05 2008, 4:19am

    Interactive chat of a blog post lifestyle.

  • Rated by abelhaslett on Feb 04 2008, 9:13pm

    Lifecycle of a blog post illustrated

  • Rated by dearknucklehead on Jan 29 2008, 11:05am

    I had no idea all my junk was so thoroughly scrutinized. I suppose that means I should post fewer cat pictures....

  • Rated by Jennifer107 on Jan 28 2008, 2:08pm

    What happens in the life of a blog? This chart will help explain.

  • Rated by clairebear5000 on Jan 26 2008, 8:31pm

    The life cycle of a blog post: chart. Looks really cool