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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.
- jim 2-17-2003 7:34 pm [link] [5 comments]

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