Blogosphere

Blogosphere (alternate: blogsphere) is the web log environment.

The totality of all blogs. A culture heavily overlapping with but not coincident with hackerdom. Warbloggers often divide the blogosphere into warbloggers and techbloggers, but this wildly oversimplifies the variety that exists among weblogs. In warblogger mythology, techbloggers write about technology and technology policy, while the warbloggers are more politically focused and tend to be preoccupied with U.S. and world response to the post-9/11 war against terrorism. In reality, weblogs--even those created by individuals working in IT--tend to be about a a variety of subjects. Weblogs can range from a list of links to diary-style sites. From the beginning (1997), weblogs have dealt with current events and politics, though usually not exclusively. The overlap with hackerdom is heaviest among the techbloggers, but several of the most prominent warbloggers are also hackers. Bloggers in general tend to be aware of and sympathetic to the hacker culture.

The term was coined on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke.

It was re-coined in 2001 by William Quick quite seriously, and was quickly adopted and promulgated by the warbloggers.