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Living Language Phrase of the Week: Blogosphere

02.25.2007

blogosphere [blaw ? gus ? feer]

–noun
1. The collection of all bloggers, blog sites, blog readers, and blog text.

Earliest Citation:

"The Council on American Islamic Relations had a poll on its website earlier this week. The query put to viewers was whether or not Ariel Sharon should be tried from war crimes. As you can imagine, the folks at CAIR regard this as an open and shut question.

On Monday night at 10:48 P.M., Glenn Reynolds noted the poll on his blog, Instapundit. He linked to the CAIR site and noted that 513 votes had been collected and that the numbers were running against the Israeli PM—94 percent of the respondents wanted him tried for war crimes.

And then the power of the blogosphere kicked in. By 6:50 A.M. on Tuesday, 11,951 votes had registered on CAIR's poll. And now 94 percent of the votes were against trying Sharon for war crimes."

—Jonathan V. Last, "Polling for Islam," The Daily Standard, April 16, 2002

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