Microdoc News has developed a picture of how a blogosphere story gets started, how that story develops and then how it then comes to an end. This was done through a study of 45 blogosphere stories. An interesting read - and a neat way of showing how blogs together in their aggregated capacity can infact raise the bar.

Aggregation to information to knowledge to wisdom ? Maybe :) !

Here's an excerpt

"How a Story Develops
We have noted four types of blog posts:

1. Lengthy opinion and molding of a topic around between three to fifteen links with one of those links the instigator of the story;
2. Vote post where the blogger agrees or disagrees with a post on another site;
3. Reaction post where a blogger provide her/his personal reaction to a single post on another site;
4. Summation post where the blogger provide a summary of various blogs and perspectives of where a blog story has got to by now.

The diagram below displays features as to how stories develop and which types of posts interact to move the story on or tend to slow it down:"