i just had an existential thought:
am i a crawler or are crawlers like me? i’ll explain.
when i find a blog i like, i will trawl through their archives and read through all the cool new stuff i’ve found. i’ll save some links on my pinboard and may blog about them as well/instead. that sounds like the behaviour of a crawler. they go through sites that they find and build up the search engine’s index with new pages they find or update the ones already there.
so who/what is emulating who/what? is this by design or is there a mimic effect… in effect?
recently, i’ve started likening my brain to an index because i’ll remember what i’ve written on a blog before thinking about searching it up on the world wide web. it’s partly why i put things on my blogs—so i can remember them. being able to retrieve information like that is helpful but it’s not transferrable to someone else. i can’t imagine or expect any/everyone to think like that. it makes potential collabs hard but luckily i don’t work with other people outside of work. it’s always on my mind though.
alas, i digress.
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