Taken from Wikipedia, Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network.
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 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. It also resembles the term noosphere (Greek nous meaning mind).
Initially coined as a joke, in recent years, the BBC has used the term 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, and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.
Websites such as Technorati, BlogPulse, Tailrank, PubSub, 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, 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.
The question is: can we make our own term and then use (spread) it to the world? Let say; "fashionosphere" for those that related to fashion, "workosphere" for those that related to working, "alcoholosphere" for those that related to anything drunk, "greenosphere" for those that related to eco-friendly matter, and etc. Well, this is just an absurd thought. Have any comment?
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 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. It also resembles the term noosphere (Greek nous meaning mind).
Initially coined as a joke, in recent years, the BBC has used the term 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, and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.
Websites such as Technorati, BlogPulse, Tailrank, PubSub, 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, 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.
The question is: can we make our own term and then use (spread) it to the world? Let say; "fashionosphere" for those that related to fashion, "workosphere" for those that related to working, "alcoholosphere" for those that related to anything drunk, "greenosphere" for those that related to eco-friendly matter, and etc. Well, this is just an absurd thought. Have any comment?
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