Another ecosystem
Teresa from Brooklyn posts a little systematic study on the taxonomy of an arbitrary blog sample found at weblogs.com. Her research, brief as it is, points to an increasing amount of traffic dominated by parasites (From an ecological point of view) surrounded by growing niches thanks to the appearance of places such as MSN spaces and the like.
What I like the most is that blogging gets to be akin to a minsdstate:
Although I like, by definition, the blogs in Spanish, I sincerely doubt that Ciencia Rabia means science ass. It sounds like science rage, which the author illustrates more clearly in this post. Also, he doesn't like Greenpeace.
Back to the original point of this post: As Cory would have said, the blogosphere is an ecosystem, one in which the different cinches are being filled by opportunistic organisms, predators, parasites, and the big mass of blogs, the prey.
Boing boing would be some kind of Tyrannosaurus Rex, munching on others content.
The general amount of blogs would be some kind exuberant vegetation, ready to be harvested for content.
LiveJournal is an Amazonian rainforest, an incredibly high diversity and strong relationships with everyone else within that jungle. For the rest of us, going in there is either a trip or a chore. The heat is almost unbearable.
Spammers are parasites. Comments are mosquitoes.
Comments
My initial guess was that rabia meant something like "enraged" or "rabid," but Jim Macdonald's Spanish is much better than my own. On the other hand, I expect yours is too. We may be reduced to asking the author of Ciencia Rabia what he meant.
Posted by: Teresa Nielsen Hayden | June 7, 2005 2:26 PM
Maybe it's "Mad Scientist" ;-)
Posted by: Stu Savory | June 8, 2005 3:17 AM
Rabia meant rage, it's my rage against the institutions that are close to fudamentalism, like greenpeace or christian churchs, the institutions that not are self-criticism... i think...
Posted by: Diaguita | June 10, 2005 12:35 PM