It's a little more complicated than this, but here's a good basic indication of how spodes would look in machine terms.
The grey squares are computers like the one you're sitting at now. Using an RPN Toolbar, you compose and post an entry. The entry is stored both on your computer harddrive and at your webposition (website, blog). The black squares are webpositions. The white square is a network, such as elgg.net, groups.drupal.org or wordpress.com. The entry is visible from various webpoints (blogs or forums), but is stored at your webposition. The large circles are posts. The small circles are comments. The dotted lines indicate that the connected posts and comments may be the identical entry.
Keywords: blog, cmc, comment, conference, discussion, entry, forum, network, post, reply, social software, spode
