blogosphere

[ blaw-guh-sfeer, blog-uh‑ ]

noun

, Digital Technology, Informal.

1. the realm of internet blogs and the people who read or write them:

   Can the blogosphere be controlled?

blogosphere

/ ˈblɒɡəˌsfɪə /

noun

1. informal.
   a collective term for the weblogs on the internet

Word History and Origins

Origin of blogosphere¹

First recorded in 2000-05; blog + -o- + sphere

Word History and Origins

Origin of blogosphere¹

C21: from blog + -o- + -sphere

Example Sentences

The trial transported observers back to 2012, the heyday of the blogosphere and an era of rancorous polemics over the existence of global warming, what the psychology researcher and climate misinformation blogger John Cook called “a feral time.”

From New York Times

I remember many years ago, back in the feminist blogosphere days, when Kate Harding wrote a blog post about this.

From Salon

But I would argue that some combination of these seven deadly sins, each one part of a larger paranoid narrative, can be found in every single news or opinion show on Fox News and in the right-wing blogosphere.

From Salon

Sassoon asked about a few stops on Bankman-Fried’s pre-extradition whistle-stop tour of the blogosphere and podcast world.

From Slate

On the whole, specialists say that critical voices in the Russian blogosphere have slowly disappeared over the past several months.

From Washington Times