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Dispatches From Blogistan
by suzanne stefanac
peachpit/new riders
voices that matter series
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from the book
> table of contents
 
> ch2 history of open discourse
 
> 10 blog design tips
 
> what is this long tail?
 
> trackback demystified
 
> blog ethics primer
 
> glossary
 
> resource hotlinks

interviews

> cory doctorow

> farai chideya

> bruce sterling

> denise caruso

> craig newmark

> jamais cascio

> laura lemay

> christian crumlish

> jon lebkowsky

spider

05.8.06 @ 02:58:57 pacific

n. A small automated software program sent out by a search engine to discover, download, analyze, and index individual web pages for the purpose of keyword searches and subsequent page ranking. The length of time between visits from traditional search engines like Google or Yahoo can be weeks or even months. Sometimes called a bot or crawler.




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