blogosphere : Java Glossary

by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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blogosphere

the collection of all blogs (web logs) on the Internet. Here are some of the reasons they are taking over from newsgroups as the primary forum for political discussion:

There is a moderator. His job is to filter out spam, childish posts, possibly ad hominem posts, obscenity etc. This makes for a less bleeding raw read.
The moderator can filter out posts discordant with his views. People can read only what they want to hear.
Blogs allow HTML or some subset of it. This makes for more readable posts. It also allows for embedded links.
Somebody else looks after filtering out the worst yahoos.
On some systems each user in identified by a picon. It helps keep track of who all the people are you are conversing with.
On some systems, users can rate the quality of posts, so that you can choose to read only the top-rated material saving you time.
The blog owner is a real person, and has a website of material. On the newsgroup nearly everyone is a fake person, or even if posing as a real person could be fake. The blog owner at least has to stand behind what he says, and be somewhat responsible for what his posters say.
This I think is the big one. Technopeasants can use blogs with an ordinary web browser. They don’t even have to stumble onto groups.google.com.

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