Neuroscience
Technorati released a blogosphere status report and after reading that it's "60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago" and other factoids I looked at an accompanying chart and it struck me - there's surely going be a blog singularity.
See for yourself:
New blogs include unknown numbers directories don't try to track because they're not human-tended (raising the question "what is a real blog?"). Technorati refers to them as noise. Splogs and splings as well as blogjects and spimes. They're getting smarter, and expanding rapidly, while at the same time there's more and better analysis about what constitutes a good blog, content trends, information sources, market data, blogger profiles, etc.
Yada yada yada then the question arises - how will I as a human blogger fare with strong AI sentient blogs?
Blogu. The best blog there could ever be. Unimaginably witty and informative. Cool and cute and credible. Will the ultimate blog end all blogs?
A blogu would provide *links* for all those words like spime and splog but I as a quirky lazy humanoid now just say look them up. Ha! Does that make me charmingly irreplacable? No?
Would I matter as a blogger? Would a blogu even blogroll me?
How will the blogularity affect my blogularity?
Ah, modern anxieties.
Tags: blogularity singularity blogosphere blogs
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Neuroscience
The blogularity
Technorati released a blogosphere status report and after reading that it's "60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago" and other factoids I looked at an accompanying chart and it struck me - there's surely going be a blog singularity.
See for yourself:
New blogs include unknown numbers directories don't try to track because they're not human-tended (raising the question "what is a real blog?"). Technorati refers to them as noise. Splogs and splings as well as blogjects and spimes. They're getting smarter, and expanding rapidly, while at the same time there's more and better analysis about what constitutes a good blog, content trends, information sources, market data, blogger profiles, etc.
Yada yada yada then the question arises - how will I as a human blogger fare with strong AI sentient blogs?
Blogu. The best blog there could ever be. Unimaginably witty and informative. Cool and cute and credible. Will the ultimate blog end all blogs?
A blogu would provide *links* for all those words like spime and splog but I as a quirky lazy humanoid now just say look them up. Ha! Does that make me charmingly irreplacable? No?
Would I matter as a blogger? Would a blogu even blogroll me?
How will the blogularity affect my blogularity?
Ah, modern anxieties.
Tags: blogularity singularity blogosphere blogs
- The Bloggers Behind The Blogs: Scarlett De Courcier
This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with some of the world's leading psychology and neuroscience bloggers. Next up, Scarlett De Courcier of Ramblings of an Academic Petrolhead, Paracademia and 28 others! How did you become a psychology/neurosci...
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So I got an iPod Touch a few weeks ago, and it's swell. I love having the Internet anywhere in the house or at work, and this makes it much easier to keep up with blogs. Yay! Google Reader has a terrific mobile interface, which makes the blog posts...
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I have been notified that Blogger's "spam-prevention robots" have locked my blog. Apparently my frequent links and "irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text" have suggested to Blogger's robots that this is a spam blog. I'm waiting for them...
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An article in the September issue of Wired: Spam + Blogs =Trouble answers the question "why do I have to type 'zvtmzu' to post a comment on your blog?!" Because of splogs & link farms. Blech. Jon Gordon on Future Tense interviewed Charles C. Mann,...