This is an interesting article on how a story moves through the blogosphere. (it even has a diagram)
There are a couple of important conclusions.
An individual blogger rarely starts a story, they tend to come from the mainstream media. And, by the nature of the medium, blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other.

45 stories were followed over a three month period. They had a predictable start, middle and ending within a 7 to 27 day period. The study found four types of posts, and how they speed up or slow a story down.

1. Lengthy opinion and molding of a topic around between three to fifteen links with one of those links the instigator of the story;

2. Vote post where the blogger agrees or disagrees with a post on another site;

3. Reaction post where a blogger provide her/his personal reaction to a single post on another site;

4. Summation post where the blogger provide a summary of various blogs and perspectives of where a blog story has got to by now.

So, where do you fit in?

Iran and the Web
The Globe and Mail takes a look at Iran’s webloggers and how the internet is being used to help over a million Iranians connect, share opinion, and circumvent censorship.

Can anyone tell me why blogger/blogspot has been so screwy the past few days?

Alright! Daimnation has made the move to movable type. My vote… move back to black on white. People with glasses find reverse text design very hard on the eyes.

Did you stop by?
A gentle reminder to bloggers and readers that have linked or bookmarked Bene Diction Blogs On with the URL benediction.webhop.com.

I don’t know it is you, if you have a blog, next time you are in your links, would you be kind enough to take a minute and update to the domain URL?
Thanks. benedictionblogson.com will feed me back to your site so I can pop over and say hi.