The term fisking is blogosphere slang describing a point-by-point criticism that highlights perceived errors, or disputes the analysis in a statement, article, or essay.

* Novgorod case, the conventional term used in the Russian blogosphere and mass media for the controversial criminal case

Other types of websites use the term permanent links, but the term permalink is most common within the blogosphere.

Quickly thereafter, the term Purple America permeated the political blogosphere and entered the public lexicon as a way of stating that the United States is not as divided as the political pundits would have the people believe.

Consequently, the term mainstream media has been widely used in conversation and the blogosphere, often in oppositional, pejorative, or dismissive senses, in discussion of the mass media and media bias.

At times, the term netroots is used interchangeably with the term blogosphere, though the blogosphere is considered a subset of netroots in that blogosphere describes just the online community of blogs, where netroots includes that plus a number of larger liberal on-line outposts such as MoveOn, Media Matters for America and Think Progress.

These were hosted online at various places and received heavy attention from the blogosphere ( e. g., Boing Boing ) until a cease-and-desist letter took down the most prominent of these sites in 2004.

His victory was partially credited to grassroots activism, and the support from the blogosphere, with Moulitsas in particular.

After the report was aired, it was immediately the subject of harsh criticism, primarily from the blogosphere, primarily due to the allegation that some of the documents referenced in the report were forgeries.

File 770 is a paper fanzine that appears several times a year and is also available on-line in electronic form ; it also has a regular on-line presence on the fannish side of the blogosphere with the latest in news from around fandom.

Within hours of the segment, the authenticity of the documents was questioned by posters on Free Republic, a conservative Internet forum, and discussion quickly spread to various weblogs in the blogosphere, principally Little Green Footballs and Power Line.

The American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute also stress that companies “ tracking content, keystrokes, and time spent at the keyboard ... store and review computer files ... monitor the blogosphere to see what is being written about the company, and ... monitor social networking sites “.

Joshua Micah Marshall ( born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American Polk Award-winning journalist who founded Talking Points Memo, which The New York Times Magazine called " one of the most popular and most respected sites " in the blogosphere.

Dave Sifry is an American software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known for founding Technorati, a leading blog search engine.

Yglesias is often referred to in the blogosphere as Big Media Matt, a semi-affectionate nickname coined by Duncan Black after his recruitment by the American Prospect.

In an article for Arab Media & Society ( http :// www. arabmediasociety. com ), Courtney C. Radsch of American University explores how the Egyptian blogosphere expanded as many younger members followed suit, especially the activists who were sympathetic to Kefaya and members who wanted to be part of the discussion about the draft party platform.

For example, Journalism's Back Seat Drivers in American Journalism Review of April 7, 2007, discusses how " The ascendant blogosphere has rattled the news media with its tough critiques and nonstop scrutiny of their reporting.

In September 2004 the US conservative blogosphere erupted with criticism of France when a New York Post opinion piece claimed that Le Figaro reported that Raffarin said " the Iraqi insurgents are our best allies ".

Markos Moulitsas, who runs the liberal Daily Kos website, told reporters in August 2007 that he does not read conservative blogs, with the exception of those on NRO: " I do like the blogs at the National Review — I do think their writers are the best in the blogosphere ," he said.

According to Bluey, the meetings were launched to provide conservative bloggers with greater understanding of conservative policy debates and a forum to discuss ideas, as there was then no regular meeting of people involved in the conservative blogosphere.

In this case the selection of blogs is the symmetric key that sender and recipient are using ; the carrier of the hidden message is the whole blogosphere.

The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections.

In 2005 a Gallup poll showed that a third of Internet users read blogs at least on occasion, and in May 2006 a study showed that there were over forty-two millions bloggers contributing to the blogosphere.

Today it is estimated that there are more than 172 million identified blogs, with more than 1 million new posts being produced by the blogosphere each day.

In 2007, following six weeks of observation, social media expert Matthew Hurst mapped the blogosphere, generating the plot to the left based on the interconnections between blogs.

While points 1 and 2 represent influential individual blogs, point 3 is the perfect example of " blogging island ," where individual blogs are highly connected within a sub-community but lack many connections to the larger blogosphere.

Lastly, point 6 represents a collection of sports ' lovers who largely segregate themselves but still manage to link back to the higher traffic blogs toward the center of the blogosphere.

* Gossip blogs are also a particular niche that has grown extensively with the development of the blogosphere.

* Fashion blogs also became their own larger than life sub-community following the explosive growth of the blogosphere.

This piece was extensively discussed in the blogosphere at the time, with some progressive blogs decrying that Cohen continued to maintain that the invasion was justified.

Yet in response to the vitality of the Iranian blogosphere, the government decided to simultaneously pursue other tactics, announcing in late 2008 its intention to create thousands of pro government blogs, including one by the president himself.

In 2009, Technorati decided to stop indexing blogs and sites in languages other than English in order to focus only on the English-language blogosphere.

Known for dry humor and an engaging writing style, Lileks especially grew in fame in the blogosphere following 9 / 11 and the subsequent explosion in the popularity of blogs for spreading both news and general punditry.

Crooked Timber ranked in Technorati's Top 100 blogs between 2003 and 2005 and is still widely linked to in the academic blogosphere.

Parts of Metroblogging are also in Technorati's " Popular blogs " list ( the Top 100 ), which is ordered by link popularity in the blogosphere.

These also can help information researchers study how fast a meme spreads through the blogosphere, to determine which sites are the most important for gaining early recognition.

He's an owner of IceRocket, a search engine which scours the blogosphere for content.

The Rag -- which published for 11 years in Austin ( 1966 – 1977 ) -- was revived in 2006 as an online publication, The Rag Blog, which now has a wide following in the progressive blogosphere and whose contributors include many veterans of the original underground press.

On April 1, 2006, Podhoretz wrote the following on National Review Online: " For writing these predictive words, which were entirely accurate, I've been pilloried all over the blogosphere.

" The comment, which was widely publicized both in the traditional media and the blogosphere, caused a media stir and caused the New York Times to dub her " The Typhoid Mary of the Web ".

This generated controversy within the blogosphere for what some observers perceived as undue criticism of Google, which was rated as more privacy-infringing than Facebook or Microsoft.

Nasrin Alavi, author of we are Iran brings the statistics of www. damasanj. com, a website which works out which stories are msot talked about in the Iranian blogosphere, which found that Ebadi dominated the top ten Rankings. 8 Most were congratulatory, and sought to provide bios and facts on the nature of Ebadi's work, which the traditional press had failed to print.