Have you ever wondered what become a blog post right after being published on the internet ? This fantastic animated schemes from Wired will show you the secret life of your post on the web.

Not necessary to know all the technic behind, but always interesting to be able to explain the machinery making it working 🙂

You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely
interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. Let’s say it’s Super Bowl Sunday and you’re blogging about beer. You see Budweiser’s blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you’d like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602

Pierre from Paris