Presentation on on software-engine relations, analyzing the entanglement of the engines into software.

1. Anne Helmond
Software-Engine
Relations
SoftWhere: Software Studies Workshop
Calit2 UCSD - May 21, 2008

2. A different kind of blogger?

3. Blog Engines

4. The blogosphere according to the
engines

5. The blogosphere according to the
engines is the indexable

6. Software optimized for the
engines
The “other side” of software-engine relations

7. Software optimized for the
engines
Blog comments do not count for engines

8. Software optimized for the
engines
Bloggers breaking out of the software-engine
regime with “dofollow”

9. Software-engine symbiosis
Engines force upgrades