Ever wondered what happens just after you post on your Blog? Frank Rose from Wired Magazine did, and he took the time to explain the complex chain of events that follow. It is impressive how every piece of information you upload to a Blog hosting service has the ability to trigger a unique action that means something to someone.
Spiders, Ping Servers, Search Engines, Data Miners, Text Scrapers, Social Bookmarks, Aggregators, Ad Servers, Corporations, Spam Blogs, Online Media, and (last but not least) the Readers - they all want to hear what you have to say and benefit from it, either financialy or intelectualy. Of course, reputation plays an important role here and your Blog and the genius of your thoughts and words remain the most important element in this peculiar information cycle.
In case we caught you blogging late night thinking how your Blog’s Technorati authority sucks, remember that you are not alone. Everything you write has an impact on “something else’s life”… even if that something is a Spider.
As seen on Wired Magazine
Just like Nietzsche when talking about society’s take on religion, this author took a dramatic title/catch phrase to describe how the online society is evolving - the death of e-mail. Sure, it does sound dramatic how something as “recent” and considered useful as the e-mail can be considered dead. This can be denied in too many ways. But, what is actually interesting, in my opinion, is how this article demonstrates the evolution of the online society - how it has already evolved to a point where there is an actual history around it that has been influenced by users’ interactions and behaviours - and, more specifically, the evolution of communication on the online world. This evolution on the way people communicate online is even more interesting when you consider the offline world - instant communication and the 24/7 wired status that Social Networks allow us are molding how people interact in the real world.
But this is a subject for an entire article. For now, just read the article above - it will make you think.
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