“You have a blog. 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”.

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I’m not talking about the ridiculous amount of coffee, chocolate or crisps I now slurp and chomp my way though on a nightly basis.

No, what has got me worried this week is the latest comic from xkcd showing a graph of “Dangers” which are indexed by the number of google results for “Died in a _____ accident”.

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I really wonder how the two blogging related deaths happened, the mind boggles. It also turns out that Knitting is not the tame activity I once thought it was.

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