Link: InfoWorld: The network is the blog: December 10, 2004: By Jon Udell .

As a blogger, I worry when I see statements like this one by Jon Udell:

Just as telephones are meaningful only when connected to the telephone network, so blogs are meaningful only when connected to the blog network.

I don’t agree that as a blogger you necessarily have to connect to other bloggers, but I agree it’s crucial that you be "findable," and being in the blog network is one way of being found. But your best audience may not be other bloggers.

However, Jon does have some very powerful things to say later in this article:

The blog network is made of people. We are the nodes, actively filtering and retransmitting knowledge. Clearly this architecture can help manage the glut of information. More subtly, it can also help ensure that no vital inputs are suppressed because nobody has to rely on a single source. If one of the feeds I monitor doesn’t react to some event in a given domain, another probably will. When they all react, I know it was an especially important event.

The resemblance of this model to the summing of activation potentials in a neural system is more than superficial. Nature knows best.

This phemenon exist without the world wide web? It’s like we’re watching our brain evolve outside your head.