How Fandom Works
It's more fun than a Rube Goldberg machine.
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Patrick reads Spinsanity's critique of Media Whores Online, and links to the article from his weblog. His weblog software notifies blo.gs that he has a new post. Technologies used: Moveable Type, Web Services (XML-RPC) |
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blo.gs marks Patrick's weblog as updated. |
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Avedon reads the Spinsanity article. |
Whump opens his blo.gs sidebar in Mozilla 1.1, and sees that Patrick's updated his blog. He reads Patrick's post. |
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blo.gs gets a request from Whump to list those weblogs which he follows which have recently changed. |
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Avedon responds to Spinsanity piece in her weblog. She emails the editors at MWO. Technologies used: Blogger, SMTP |
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Editors at MWO start reading and posting responses to the Spinsanity piece. |
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Patrick's readers reply to his article. Technologies used: Moveable Type |
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Whump jumps to MWO site and reads responses to Spinsanity article. He sees Avedon's letter, jumps to her site, and reads her notes. He links to Avedon's article in his weblog. Technologies used: LAMP (homebrew weblog software) |
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Whump reads comments in Patrick's weblog. He adds to his previous entry. He misspells Teresa's name. |
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Patrick continues to post to his weblog. Patrick enables Trackback in his weblog. Technologies used: Moveable Type. |
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blo.gs receives notice of changes in Patrick's weblog |
Patrick's weblog gets the trackback ping from Whump, and updates. |
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Whump sees that Patrick's weblog has changed. He goes to read it, and discovers trackbacks are enabled. Since he doesn't use Movable Type, he reads the MT manual online to see how to send a trackback ping for earlier posts. He sends a trackback ping by hand-editing a URL in the location bar. Technologies used: Google, REST (REpresentational State Transfer) |
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Teresa notices that there's a trackback ping. She follows it to Whump's weblog and reads the entry. She discovers her name is misspelled (but at least not hyphenated). She uses the feedback form on the weblog page to advise Whump of the error. Technologies used: LAMP, SMS (Short Message Service) |
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Whump's wireless phone carrier receives an SMS message from his website. It's sent to his phone, on his hip, at a coffee house in downtown Mountain View where he's reading weblogs and news on his iBook via the free 802.11b service. |
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Whump's phone receives SMS message sent by Teresa. He reads it. Goes to his weblog and corrects the misspelling. Technologies used: SMS, LAMP, 802.11b |
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