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Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
s and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community
Community

In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment .In human communities, intention, belief, Natural resource, preferences, Need assessment, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the Identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness....
 (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network
Social network

A social network is a social structure made of nodes that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual network, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade....
.

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
Warblog

A warblog or milblog is a weblog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war. Sometimes the use of the term "warblog" implies that the blog concerned has a hawkish slant....
 community.






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Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
s and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community
Community

In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment .In human communities, intention, belief, Natural resource, preferences, Need assessment, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the Identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness....
 (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network
Social network

A social network is a social structure made of nodes that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual network, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade....
.

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
Warblog

A warblog or milblog is a weblog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war. Sometimes the use of the term "warblog" implies that the blog concerned has a hawkish slant....
 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.

Despite the term's humorous intent, CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
, the BBC, and National Public Radio
National Public Radio

National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
's programs Morning Edition
Morning Edition

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It airs weekday mornings and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours....
, Day To Day
Day to Day

Day to Day is a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio , and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate ....
, and All Things Considered
All Things Considered

All Things Considered is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets....
 have used it 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
Globalization

Globalization in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together....
, voter fatigue
Voter fatigue

In politics, voter fatigue is the apathy that the electorate can experience when they are required to vote too often.It is often used as a criticism of the direct democracy system, in which voters are constantly asked to decide on policy via referendums....
, and many other phenomena, and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.

Tracking

Sites such as Technorati
Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati Web indexinges 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media....
, BlogPulse
BlogPulse

BlogPulse is a search engine for blogs. It was initially created by IntelliSeek, and was later acquired by the Nielsen Company....
, Tailrank
Tailrank.com

Tailrank.com is a site that provides a Web feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned....
, and BlogScope
BlogScope

BlogScope is a Web search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology. BlogScope is outcome of an ongoing research project at the University of Toronto....
 track the interconnections between bloggers. Taking advantage of hypertext
Hypertext

Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references to other text that the reader can immediately follow, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence....
 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
Meme

A meme is a unit or element of culture ideas, symbols or practices; such units or elements transmit from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena....
 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.

See also

  • Afrosphere
    Afrosphere

    Afrosphere/Afrospear is a play on the word Blogosphere which relates to all blogs and their interconnections within the African continent. The word Afrosphere has also been used to describe the African American blogosphere and has been reframed as Afrospear....
  • Canadian blogosphere
    Canadian blogosphere

    Canadian blogosphere is used to describe the online predominantly English Canadian community of Blog that is part of the larger blogosphere.Canada has one of the highest internet penetration in the world....
  • Customer engagement
    Customer engagement

    Customer engagement refers to the engagement of customers with one another, with a company or a brand. The initiative for engagement can be either consumer- or company-led and the medium of engagement can be on or offline....
  • Group Blogging
    Collaborative blog

    A collaborative blog is a type of weblog in which posts are written and published by more than one author. The majority of high profile collaborative blogs are based around a single uniting theme, such as politics or technology....
  • Global Voices Online
    Global Voices Online

    Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world....
  • J-Blogosphere
    J-Blogosphere

    J-Blogosphere is the name that some members of the Jewish blogging community use to refer to themselves. Blogs with a Jewish focus are called J-Blogs....
  • New Zealand blogosphere
    New Zealand blogosphere

    New Zealand's blogosphere is a small community of around 600 blogs that comment largely on New Zealand politics, society and occurrences....


External links

  • (Nov 22 2004)
  • and at Wanabehuman
  • State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 by Dave Sifry
    Dave Sifry

    Dave Sifry is an United States software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known most recently for founding Technorati, a leading blog search engine....
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  • State of the Blogosphere, September 2008