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'The '''blogosphere''' is made up of all [[blog]]s and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected [[community]] (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a [[social network]] in which everyday authors can publish their opinions. == History == The term was coined on September 10, 1999 by [[Brad L. Graham]], as a joke.<ref>[http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/comments/september_10_1999/ The BradLands: Must See http://<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It was re-coined in 2002 by [[William Thomas Quick|William Quick]],<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071227073108/http://www.iw3p.com/DailyPundit/2001_12_30_dailypundit_archive.php#8315120 DailyPundit.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] (via [[Internet Archive]])</ref> 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 world of words", the [[universe of discourse]].{{Fact|date=January 2009}} Despite the term's humorous intent, [[CNN]], the [[BBC]], and [[National Public Radio]]'s programs ''[[Morning Edition]]'', ''[[Day To Day]]'', and ''[[All Things Considered]]'' 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]], [[voter fatigue]], and many other phenomena,<ref>[http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739116711 Blogosphere: The new political arena], Michael Keren, 2006.</ref> and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers<ref>Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang, and Philip Yu. "Identifying Influential Bloggers in a Community", First International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM08), February 11-12, Stanford, California.</ref> and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.<ref>Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, John Salerno, and Philip Yu. "Searching for 'Familiar Strangers' on Blogosphere: Problems and Challenges", NSF Symposium on Next-Generation Data Mining and Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation. October 10-12, Baltimore, MD.</ref><ref>Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, and Xufei Wang. "A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network", 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, May 17 - 20, 2009, San Jose, California.</ref> == Tracking == Sites such as [[Technorati]], [[BlogPulse]], [[Tailrank.com|Tailrank]], 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, to determine which sites are the most important for gaining early recognition.<ref>[http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38960.pdf Investigating the Impact of the Blogosphere: Using PageRank to Determine the Distribution of Attention], Kirchhoff, Bruns & Nicolai, 2007.</ref> Sites also exist to track specific blogospheres, such as those related by a certain genre, culture, subject matter or geopolitical location. == See also == *[[Afrosphere]] *[[Bloggernacle]] *[[Customer engagement]] *[[Collaborative blog|Group Blogging]] *[[Global Voices Online]] *[[J-Blogosphere]] ==References== <!--See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags--> {{Reflist}} == External links == {{wiktionary}} *[http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3438891 Article on growth of the blogosphere] (Nov 22 2004) *[http://wanabehuman.blogspot.com/2006/04/politicstechnology-chinese-blogosphere.html The Chinese blogosphere] and [http://wanabehuman.blogspot.com/2006/04/politicstechnology-persian-blogosphere.html the Persian blogosphere] at Wanabehuman *State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 by [[Dave Sifry]]: [http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000432.html Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth], [http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000433.html Part 2: On Language and Tagging] *State of the Blogosphere, September 2008 [http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ Day 1 of 5: Who Are the Bloggers?] [http://www.infogle.com/blog Make Money Blog] {{Blog topics}} [[Category:Internet terminology]] [[Category:Blogs]] [[af:Webjoernaalsfeer]] [[ast:Blogosfera]] [[bg:Блогосфера]] [[ca:Blocosfera]] [[da:Blogosfære]] [[de:Blogosphäre]] [[es:Blogosfera]] [[eu:Blogosfera]] [[fr:Blogosphère]] [[ko:블로고스피어]] [[hi:चिट्ठाजगत]] [[it:Blogosfera]] [[ka:ბლოგოსფერო]] [[la:Blogosphaera]] [[lv:Blogosfēra]] [[lt:Tinklaraštija]] [[mt:Bloggosfera]] [[ja:ブロゴスフィア]] [[pl:Blogosfera]] [[pt:Blogosfera]] [[ru:Блогосфера]] [[sv:Bloggosfär]] [[uk:Блогосфера]] [[zh:網誌空間]]'