Editing Blogosphere (section)

== History ==
The term was coined on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/comments/september_10_1999/ |title=Must See http:// |publisher=The BradLands |date=1999-09-10 |access-date=2011-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808065453/http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/comments/september_10_1999/ |archive-date=2011-08-08 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Axelrod |first=Laura |date=January 4, 2010 |title=Brad L. Graham, coined the term 'blogosphere,' dies at 41 |url=http://blog.al.com/scenesource/2010/01/brad_l_graham_coined_the.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108081641/https://blog.al.com/scenesource/2010/01/brad_l_graham_coined_the.html |archive-date=2010-01-08 |access-date=September 28, 2011 |work=The Birmingham News}}</ref> It was re-coined in 2002 by [[William Thomas Quick|William Quick]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=DailyPundit.com |url=http://www.iw3p.com/dailypundit/2001_12_30_dailypundit_archive.php#8315120 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020421162114/http://www.iw3p.com/dailypundit/2001_12_30_dailypundit_archive.php#8315120 |archive-date=2002-04-21 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=webarchive.loc.gov |quote=I PROPOSE A NAME for the intellectual cyberspace we bloggers occupy: the Blogosphere. Simple enough; the root word is logos, from the Greek meaning, variously: In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos; Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language) {{!}} Posted 1/1/2002 12:54:01 AM by William Quick}}</ref> and was quickly adopted and propagated by the [[warblog|warblogger]] community. The term resembles the older word ''logosphere'' (from Greek ''logos'' meaning ''word'', and ''sphere'', interpreted as ''world''), "the world of words", the [[universe of discourse]].<ref>"Logos." PBS.org. https://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/theogloss/logos-body.html</ref><ref>"Sphere." English for Students. http://www.english-for-students.com/sphere.html</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=April 2025}}

Despite the term's humorous intent, [[CNN]], the [[BBC]], and [[National Public Radio]]'s programs ''[[Morning Edition]]'', ''[[Day To Day]]'', and ''[[All Things Considered]]'' used it several times to discuss public opinion. A number of media outlets in the late 2000s started treating the blogosphere as a gauge of public opinion, and it has been cited in both academic and non-academic work as evidence of rising or falling resistance to [[globalization]], [[voter fatigue]], and many other phenomena,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keren |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/blogospherenewpo0000kere |title=Blogosphere: the new political arena |date=2006 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-1671-5 |location=Lanham, MD |archive-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Blogosphere: the new political arena |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739116715/Blogosphere-The-New-Political-Arena |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=Rowman & Littlefield}}</ref> and also in reference to identifying influential bloggers<ref>Nitin Agarwal, [[Huan Liu]], Lei Tang, and [[Philip S. Yu|Philip Yu]]. "[https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/32443555/ACM_WSDM_Identifying-libre.pdf?1391151744=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DIdentifying_the_influential_bloggers_in.pdf&Expires=1744201980&Signature=be0Hs8GYEoCOtG4rW549ffUgBRLFhqR-eCcBpTEHub1pfPJ~Xpm1bhEgmXwHAP7o4qmE9qqiYUtuop3XMoZToiva-4pIYtvPRimR-lMJsp9vd9-XmqLIMexWZE9RmaWpeb80V9Ce4KXgzX2T5PlP7zANSSSnNnfaFZ0~5ZCQbyEXcDGZTczH4OE0TnT4j5dZlWkCMpBjH8cYPdwF3c1YWYzbFUWa0ydFoT79MdLr4DTLG20Gb4N6VHt74SviKHVYH7cCl4oHlQ2TI9mgMm~yDlfIOPY~hFyiSVtGZ6ubXbODo6Uulf8a6nuC1xBByHUUWHHiSvoMMeaZzMz8VF~Z7A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA Identifying Influential Bloggers in a Community]", First International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM08), February 11–12 2008, Palo Alto, California. </ref> and "familiar strangers" in the blogosphere.<ref>Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, John Salerno, and Philip Yu. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080425140610/http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/papers/ngdm07.pdf Searching for 'Familiar Strangers' on Blogosphere: Problems and Challenges]", NSF Symposium on Next-Generation Data Mining and Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation. October 10–12 2008, Baltimore, MD.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Agarwal |first=Nitin |last2=Liu |first2=Huan |last3=Murthy |first3=Sudheendra |last4=Sen |first4=Arunabha |last5=Wang |first5=Xufei |date=2009-03-19 |title=A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network |url=https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/13946 |journal=Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=2–9 |doi=10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13946 |issn=2334-0770}}</ref>