The blogosphere is truly weird and amazing. I found out that there’s a book I have to read that goes into the peak oil situation, expanding on this article. What’s interesting is to follow the chain of events that will lead me to purchasing this book:
I wrote about the potential for a Ruby on Railsish stack for Python.
People link to this entry quite a bit placing it first in Google’s results for the query python+“ruby on rails”.
Alec was looking for info on Python and Rails earlier today and finds my ramblings.
Alec sees a totally unrelated link on my site to The Long Emergency, an article on peak oil that I read and bookmarked a couple of days ago.
Alec had been interested in peak oil for a while and jots down his thoughts on The Long Emergency article.
My technorati watch list notifies me that Alec linked to me.
I read Alec’s piece and decide I need to purchase the book version of the article.
I purchase book.
Who could have predicted that web programming and the energy problem could possibly be related? The only real link between these two topics is interest on the part of a few individuals.
IMO, it’s these types of serendipitous connections that make blogging a really interesting and unprecedented communications medium.
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