What is the Blogosphere?
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 may either be used somewhat facetiously, or may be used in an entirely genuine manner, 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 most recently was adopted as a term to describe the world of information that the modern communication age ushered in. Logosphere is derived from the Greek word for word, logos, and the word for world or universe, sphere. Blogosphere can therefore be understood as describing the universe of blogs, and also as evoking the concept of the logical, interconnected universe that the word logosphere describes. The word blog, in turn, is a shortening of the term web log. Bl
