Can a blog post have a life cycle? Some folks think so.
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 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.
A Flash graphic is all it takes to explain. All I wanted to do was to have some fun.
