Everything about Blogosphere totally explained
Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all
blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected
community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a
social network.
History
The term was coined on
September 10,
1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke. It was re-coined in 2002 by
William Quick, and was quickly adopted and propagated by the
warblog community. The term resembles the older word
logosphere (from Greek
logos meaning
word, and
sphere, interpreted as
world), the "the world of words", the
universe of discourse. It also resembles the term
noosphere (Greek
nous meaning
mind).
Initially coined as a joke, in recent years,
CNN, the
BBC, and
National Public Radio's programs
Morning Edition,
Day To Day, and
All Things Considered have used the term several times to discuss public opinion. A number of media outlets in recent years have started treating the blogosphere as a gauge of public opinion, and it has been cited in both academic and non-academic work as evidence of rising or falling resistance to
globalization,
voter fatigue, and many other phenomena, and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.
Tracking
Sites such as
Technorati,
BlogPulse,
Tailrank,
PubSub, and
BlogScope track the interconnections between bloggers. Taking advantage of
hypertext links which act as markers for the subjects the bloggers are discussing, these sites can follow a piece of conversation as it moves from blog to blog. These also can help information researchers study how fast a
meme spreads through the blogosphere, in order to determine which sites are the most important for gaining early recognition. Sites also exist to track specific blogospheres, such as those related by a certain genre, culture, subject matter or geopolitical location.
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