Blogosphere

(n) The collective term that encompasses all blogs as a community or social network, often likened as a social phenomenon.



The term “weblog” was first used in 1997 (Bell et al, 2004) and blogging in its current form also began around the same time (Nardi et al, 2004).

The term "blogosphere" also surfaced around 1999 but was only popularized in 2002 by the warblog community.

There are 3 types of blogs: (Herring et al, 2004)
1. Individually authored diary-style
- e.g. Xiaxue

2. "Filters" - provide commentary to other website
- e.g. Boing Boing, Tomorrow.sg

3. "Knowledge logs"
- e.g. Bird Ecology Study Group

There are also thematic blogs like:
- photoblogs
- flogs (or "Food Log")
- dlogs (or "Dog Logs")
- vlogs (or "Video Logs")