I like the refinement this chart brings to Chris Brogan's widely adopted view of the social media world as a network of "outposts" around the "home base" (for most of us, our blogs). It reminds me of the Earth's water cycle - you know, the one you had to sketch out in your Grade 5 notebook? Evaporation, transportation, condensation, precipitation, all those other -ions, round and round and round without end. Only, presumably, in social media the drops of INPUT are filtered through a human mind and combined in some sort of wonderful alchemy, rather than simply running off the top of a sun-baked asphalt parking lot or percolating down through layers of silt to get pumped back up into your tea kettle and eventually flushed... Well, perhaps that's extending the water cycle metaphor just a bit too far. FLOW. That's what I was getting at here. FLOW. It's a process that gives purpose to the absorption of all this endless information. And somewhere there, between the blogger's brain and the post pages of home base, all that input is synthesized, analyzed, altered, improved, and generally rendered into something fresh to be pumped out the other end to all those waiting outposts, ready to be absorbed into some other blogger's ecosystem of reading and thinking and writing... Nice colours, too.