I wish my blog had more spiders

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