What’s with Blogosphere?

By Jenevieve D. Gomez  – Author –
University of Santo Tomas, College of Fine Arts & Design,
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              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.

              The blogosphere is a way of describing the social creature that grows from a critical mass of blogs. Blogs are all about personal, customized content – what you read is what you get. When you start poking around the blogosphere, you’re going to get a lot of blogs centered around someone’s political views, another person’s take on the latest fashion flubs, somebody else’s opinion on technology news, and so much more. The blogosphere is the personal side of the World Wide Web, and there’s definitely a lot to explore.

A blog is much simpler:

• A blog is normally a single page of entries. There may be archives of older entries, but the “main page” of a blog is all anyone really cares about.
• A blog is organized in reverse-chronological order, from most recent entry to least recent.
• A blog is normally public — the whole world can see it.
• The entries in a blog usually come from a single author.
• The entries in a blog are usually stream-of-consciousness. There is no particular order to them. For example, if I see a good link, I can throw it in my blog. The tools that most bloggers use make it incredibly easy to add entries to a blog any time they feel like it.