Blogosphere is the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture.The term blogosphere 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. As of 2006, some people still treat the term blogosphere as a joke; however, National Public Radio's programs Morning Edition, Day To Day, and All Things Considered have used the term several times to discuss public opinion. The term bears a similarity to a much older word, "logosphere". In the Greek roots, "logo" means "word," and "sphere" can be interpreted as "world," resulting in "the world of words," the universe of discourse. The term also recalls the pronunciation and the meaning of the term "noosphere." Blogosphere and blogsphere may also be references to the fictional home planet of the Vogons, "Vogsphere" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.The notion of a blogosphere is an important concept for understanding blogs. Blogs themselves are essentially just the published text of an author's thoughts, whereas the blogosphere is a social phenomenon. What differentiates blogs from webpages or forums is that blogs can be part of a shifting Internet-wide social network formed by many links between different blogs.The blogosphere is emerging as a gauge of public opinion and cultural memes, and 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.
Important Blogosphere sites
Blogdex
Blogdigger
Bloglines
Feedster
PubSub
Technorati
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