Monday, December 8, 2008

Entering the Blogosphere

We are pleased to be a part of the collective community of blogs known as the Blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the Internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked.

I did some research on the Blogosphere and found this on wikipedia: 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.

For those of us who are more visual, here is a simple picture of the Blogosphere -


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