The current issue of Wired has a great Infographic by Build showing what goes on behind the scenes when you publish a blog post.
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.
via Boing Boing
infographic by Build
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Great graphic, its still startling to me – in 2008 – the number of bloggers i know and meet who have no idea how “this” all works… yet.
{tin foil hat on}
When you look at the number of (US and Non-US Based) commercial “silent” listeners, catalogers, analyzers, categorizers, etc you have to wonder if exposing the NSA’s AT&T wiretap makes any difference at all? Government and private agencies can and will continue to procure the same information “legally” from the private sector. This only shows you one medium thats exposed.
{tin foil hat off}
All your base are belong to us… indeed :)
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