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The blogosphere, err as it is known...
11/08/2005, 22:12:41
Tagged Under: blog, blogsphere, blogging, en, everything, nothing.
So what is the blogosphere? Well according to many it is the collective term encompassing all weblogs or blogs as a community or social network. Well that is cool, perhaps it is because it is a social network that it felt it needed to be defined? Well I don't think it should feel the need to be defined. Many of us kept blogs a long time before the likes of blogger and so on and it fills me with a little bitterness that once again the masses rape the underground of what it was to make the more commercial world what it has become. I kept an online journal of sorts before the turn of the millennium, how many people from the "blogosphere" can actually say that? I recently wrote and sent a crawler out looking at blogs sites using some of the more popular blog directories and portals to just have a look at peoples archive years. Out of over three and half million blogs (that my crawler looked at) only a four percent of those actually had archives that pre-dated 2001.
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