January 16, 2003
Pattern: Someone does something.
Pattern:Someone does something. It might be something boring, that only they do, that other people can see. A novelty.
Someone realizes that thing would be a lot more valuable if everyone was doing it and could connect to each other. So they set up a centralized server to aggregate all these someones doing somethings. Lots of people join up and do these somethings together. A movement.
Someone sees the service and decides they want to compete. They start another similar service. They attract some new audience and some of the other service's audience. The movement grows and fractures.
Someone allows every person to set up that service for themselves, for cost.
Someone allows every person to set up that service for themselves, for free.
For blogging, I guess it goes - Justin, Blogger, Livejournal and others,
Movable Type, B2/snipsnap.
Posted by Curt at January 16, 2003 08:49 PM