Information About

Blogosphere





HISTORY

The term blogosphere was coined on ".

The notion of a blogosphere is an important concept for understanding blogs. Blogs themselves are essentially just the published text of an author's thoughts, whereas the blogosphere is a social Phenomenon . What differentiates blogs from Webpage s or Forum s is that blogs can be part of a shifting Internet -wide social network formed by many links between different blogs.


TRACKING

Sites such as Technorati , Blogdex , Bloglines , Blogrunner , Blog Street , BlogsNow , PubSub , and Truth Laid Bear use the links made by bloggers to 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 blogsphere, in order to determine which sites are the most important for gaining early recognition.


IMPORTANT BLOGOSPHERE SITES



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