I have not one single insightful thing to say about google buying blogger. This must be the most important blog related story ever, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why.
Obviously I'm reaching here, but maybe it has something to do with internet developing beyond a polling type consciousness. The old model goes like this: check a bunch of sites, see if anything new is happening; wait n seconds; check again; repeat. That's polling. You can make it near instantaneous by reducing n towards zero, but it's still polling. This is what gives us the 15 minutes of lag on google news.
Perhaps with the acquisition of blogger, internet (which, if conscious, is so through google) moves to something like trigger based consciousness. Instead of having to constantly check to see if anything is happening, it will already know when anything is happening because people will be blogging it through google's system. Bloggers become the neurons of the active consciousness.
The rate of posting (combined somehow mathamagically with outbound link targets) becomes the standing wave of consciousness for internet.
$$ ??
They're not saying.
that seems to be a concensus opinion, better real time news indexing capabilities.
heres the best thing ive read thus far.
Another interesting possibility is that because bloogle will control the user interface, they could possibly introduce some easy to use semantic mark up tags. This is the sort of thing that hasn't been able to gain any traction, since there hasn't been a clear leader in the space. Even something as simple as marking up the difference between a blogroll link and a blog item link could be very important for google's spiders. And clearly every other weblog tool maker is going to follow any lead that bloogle takes.
Here's a not terribly related, but interesting comment from (google founder) Larry Page: Larry Page: "It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations. We wanted to annotate the web--build a system so that after you'd viewed a page you could click and see what smart comments other people had about it. But how do you decide who gets to annotate Yahoo? We needed to figure out how to choose which annotations people should look at, which meant that we needed to figure out which other sites contained comments we should classify as authoritative. Hence PageRank.
"Only later did we realize that PageRank was much more useful for search than for annotation..."
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Obviously I'm reaching here, but maybe it has something to do with internet developing beyond a polling type consciousness. The old model goes like this: check a bunch of sites, see if anything new is happening; wait n seconds; check again; repeat. That's polling. You can make it near instantaneous by reducing n towards zero, but it's still polling. This is what gives us the 15 minutes of lag on google news.
Perhaps with the acquisition of blogger, internet (which, if conscious, is so through google) moves to something like trigger based consciousness. Instead of having to constantly check to see if anything is happening, it will already know when anything is happening because people will be blogging it through google's system. Bloggers become the neurons of the active consciousness.
The rate of posting (combined somehow mathamagically with outbound link targets) becomes the standing wave of consciousness for internet.
- jim 2-17-2003 7:34 pm
$$ ??
- Skinny 2-17-2003 9:29 pm
They're not saying.
- jim 2-17-2003 9:47 pm
that seems to be a concensus opinion, better real time news indexing capabilities.
- dave 2-17-2003 9:58 pm
heres the best thing ive read thus far.
- dave 2-17-2003 10:04 pm
Another interesting possibility is that because bloogle will control the user interface, they could possibly introduce some easy to use semantic mark up tags. This is the sort of thing that hasn't been able to gain any traction, since there hasn't been a clear leader in the space. Even something as simple as marking up the difference between a blogroll link and a blog item link could be very important for google's spiders. And clearly every other weblog tool maker is going to follow any lead that bloogle takes.
Here's a not terribly related, but interesting comment from (google founder) Larry Page:
- jim 2-17-2003 10:05 pm