The blogosphere is a network of interconnected blogs on the internet. It originated as a joke in 1999 and has since become a powerful tool for sharing information and ideas. Blogs are used for personal, academic, political, and business purposes. The blogosphere allows for quick dissemination of information and is believed to be one of its most influential aspects.
The blogosphere is a term used to describe the millions of interconnected blogs on the Internet. The term was first used in late 1999 as a joke and continued to be used sporadically as a humorous term for the next few years. In contemporary usage it can be used somewhat jokingly or it can be used entirely genuinely, depending on the user.
The word blogosphere is most likely a nod to the older and more frequently used logosphere. The logosphere has been used to describe a number of different things, but has more recently been adopted as a term to describe the world of information that the modern communication age has ushered in. Logosphere comes from the Greek word for word, logos and the word for world or universe, sphere. Blogosphere can therefore be understood as a description of the universe of blogs, and also as an evocation of the concept of a logical and interconnected universe that the word logosphere describes.
The word blog, in turn, is an abbreviation of the term web log. Blogs have been around in one form or another for some time on the internet, but the term was first used in 1997. Blogs quickly gained popularity around the turn of the millennium and as their growth it seems unlikely to slow down anytime soon. Blogs are used for a wide variety of purposes: recording personal thoughts, posting academic thoughts and written work, discussing political topics, posting general news, posting news related to a specific area, publicly discussing innovations and activities within a company, and basically anything else you can conceive.
Basically, a blog is a solitary expression. A blog often has only one author, who publishes new articles as he wishes. Sometimes blogs will have multiple authors, but rarely more than a small handful. While readers can often interact with the author through comments, this level of interaction is still limited.
The blogosphere is a way of describing the social creature that grows out of a critical mass of blogs. Because of the way blogs are built and with the help of popular services like Bloglines or Technorati, blogs are ideal for interconnecting with each other. Authors of a post can link within the post to another blog, can comment on other blogs that link to their own, or can keep a blog roll of their favorite blogs. With such close connections between blogs, information can be passed on at an incredible rate. If a blog posts something that catches the attention of other bloggers, their reposting of that article and subsequent reposting by their readers means that the information may soon be all over the blogosphere.
This ability of the blogosphere to convey pieces of information or concepts – commonly referred to as memes – is believed by many to be one of the most influential aspects of the blogosphere. News blogs are able to discover new stories and report on them from different angles much faster than traditional media, simply by harnessing the power of the blogosphere. People downtrodden or in some sort of dire straits who need their story told are often able to get it out there quickly to millions, simply by harnessing the power of the blogosphere. Businesses are quickly realizing that the power of the blogosphere to broadcast buzz about new products or services is unmatched by any traditional media.
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