What happens to blog-posts after you click Publish

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 27, 2008 12:16 AM | permalink

Wired has a tasty infographic showing what happens to a blog-post after you click "publish" -- all the scrapers, bots, ad-servers, splogs and bloggers who read and process it. Link (via YPulse)

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#1 posted by Takuan , January 27, 2008 12:28 AM

they missed a box. The big one marked "NSA", in between "You" and all the other boxes

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#2 posted by mercermachine

, January 27, 2008 1:47 AM

Actually, I think my blog would have a different infographic: 1. Click publish. 2. Black hole opens. 3. Giant sucking sound. 4. Repeat. :)

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#3 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, January 27, 2008 2:17 AM

You're getting read here, at least.

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#4 posted by mercermachine

, January 27, 2008 2:38 AM

Teresa rocks :)

But I actually got over the statcounter madness a couple years ago. Decided if I really wanted people to read what I write, I had to write about what's important to me, not what technorati thinks is unbearably important this hour.

I'm just sayin'

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#5 posted by Franz , January 27, 2008 2:55 AM

Wow. This happened to my blog also, although there were no secrets in it that I know of. My blog: http://themostreadblog.blogspot.com/

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#6 posted by mercermachine

, January 27, 2008 3:10 AM

Wow. Franz, you just may be the universe's way of telling me I'm on to something.

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#7 posted by Moon , January 27, 2008 9:25 AM

What a screwed up interface for that chart. Wouldn't it be a lot easier for EVERYONE just to click once to make it large and click again to make it small, like every large image on the internet?

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#8 posted by Zac Garrett , January 27, 2008 9:37 AM

@Moon: Yeah, that is about the worst interface I have seen in a long time. I don't understand why its flash in the first place. A simple image would be so much easier.

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#9 posted by yesno , January 27, 2008 11:22 AM

Ugh. I agree, that was a terrible interface.

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#10 posted by Krisjohn

, January 27, 2008 3:16 PM

I could draw a diagram just as complicated explaining how my microblogging is piped around using RSS feeds and Twitter.

In fact, that sounds like a fun project for today.

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#11 posted by Jeff , January 28, 2008 3:59 AM

One of the things that annoys me to no end about Wired is the over use of graphics. The above is an example of an overly artsty was of showing the data flows. There are rules for how to design a page that allows for optimal data presentation, and Wired hasn't discovred them yet. Here's one rule: "Black type on white paper." Am I the only one who hates most of the fancy page layouts that Wired uses? Like kids with design software that don't know how to stop.