The Blogging Ecosystem

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The Blogging Organism

• Every Blog requires essential elements to survive, develop and grow.

• As with any living plant the essential elements for growth include – Sunlight– Water– Nutrients– A stable and synergistic environment

The Naked Blog

Sunlight

• A diffuse radiant energy - The readership• Too much light: – Scorching over-exposure, low quality, rapid

turnover brown leaves (posts)

• Too little light: – The amazing (and rare) orchids of the forest floor.

Magnificent, intricate and delicate flowers – most undiscovered and yet to be named

Blog

SunlightSunlight

Readership

Sunlight

Readership

Sunlight – Readership energy

Water

• Environmental Resources:– News sources, feeds, information aggregators– RSS feeds, FreindFeed, Dipity, Swurl

• Too much water:– Drowning in information, data overload – leads to

leaves with little substance or structure• Too little water– Parched of news, isolated immature sproutings

develop from the main stem

Blog

SunlightSunlight

Readership

Sunlight

Readership

BlogPostsBlogPosts

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

News resources

Information mulch

• The combination of – Organic material [life experience] – Water [environmental news resources] – Shaded conditions [thinking time]

• A rich source of nutrients and energy, still requiring decomposition and stabilization prior to useful assimilation

Blog

SunlightSunlight

Readership

Sunlight

Readership

BlogPostsBlogPosts

Social Network FlowerSocial Network Flower

Organic ContentOrganic Content

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Information MulchInformation Mulch

Information mulch aggregation

Decomposers and stabilizers

• Tweeple, Twitts and Twurls [decomposers]– Disaggregate and disambiguate [enrich the soil]– Enrich the soil– Stabilize the mulch– Catalysts of the blogging ecosystem and produce

‘tweets’ and ‘twitterings’ as the essential aggregated macronutrient for a blossoming blog.

Blog

SunlightSunlight

Readership

Sunlight

Readership

TweetsTweets

BlogPostsBlogPosts

Social Network FlowerSocial Network Flower

Organic ContentOrganic Content

Tweeple, Twitts and TwurlsTweeple, Twitts and Twurls

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking Information MulchInformation Mulch

Decomposers and mulch stabilizers

Blog

SunlightSunlight

Readership

Sunlight

Readership

TweetsTweets

BlogPostsBlogPosts

Social Network FlowerSocial Network Flower

Organic ContentOrganic Content

Tweeple, Twitts and TwurlsTweeple, Twitts and Twurls

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Water – RainNews, RSS, FF, Life

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking Information MulchInformation Mulch

The Blogging ecosystem