Blogosphere

The term blogosphere (English " blogosphere " ) describes the totality of the Blogs (short: blogs) and their compounds. It stems from the perception that blogs through their networks together to form one or a plurality of communities, or represent a social network. The term is meant to remind us of " logosphere ", which means " world of words ". Also, a similarity with the concept of the noosphere is intended.

History

The term " blogosphere " has been used jokingly by Brad L. Graham first on 10 September 1999. He was picked up by William Quick, whereupon he quickly spread throughout the community Warblog 2002.

Originally used jokingly, the term blogosphere was increasingly mass media and academic use.

A historically important text is the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow, from a techno - liberal position called for starting a internet freedom from the control of national governments. To date, a strong aversion to any censorship and interference in the freedom of expression has been preserved in the blogosphere.

Emergence of the blogosphere

The Blogophäre forms a loosely coherent network through interaction between the blogs themselves, but also with social networks.

Networking

The networking of weblogs is carried out via various methods:

Interaction with social networks

Most social networks such as Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity to share web content with their own contacts. This function also make bloggers advantage.

Indexing

Sites like Technorati, Blog Pulse, Bloglines, Bloglines, PubSub, Rivva and others make the connections between weblogs; they avail themselves of the hypertext links to filter out network structures and to track, as evolve memes and certain topics in the blogosphere and where they take their output.