The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You | WIREDSkip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely an
