» What Groks Your Blog, from Servers to Spiders to Readers (an interactive graphic)
While writers write for their intended readers, an impressive array of software processes blogs. From ping distribution to trackback, from reply management to aggregation and resyndication, posts zip across the Internet to be found by all kinds of search tools and interested readers. This makes blogs different from other web pages, bulletin boards, and content management systems. In addition, readers can subscribe to and follow blogs using handy desktop feed readers such as FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and browser-based feed readers such as Google Reader; they need not take time nor hassle to open another browser page to read the latest entries. See this Wired interactive graphic to see how cyberspace groks blogs.