Commentary: Surfing the blogosphere When you take all the blogs on the Web together, you get something called the blogosphere. It's important to think of the blogosphere as separate from the Web, because of all the interlinking going on. Look at any blog, and you're likely to see a list of related blogs (sometimes titled "friends of..."). Bloggers like to link to other blogs that they likeas well as to news stories, photos, audio filesyou name it. In fact, a lot of blogs are nothing more than links to interesting blog entriesthere isn't always a lot of original content there. The blogger finds something interesting, and then uses his own blog to draw attention to that other posting. In this way, bloggers are a lot like radio disc jockeys, "spinning" links and snippets the same as a DJ spins songs. These bloggers not only sort through the blogosphere to find the most interesting articles, they also provide some background and organization to these postings, and in many cases add their own commentary. The best blogs have a definite point of view, no matter what content they're linking to. The way to get the most efficient use of the blogosphere is to find one or two bloggers that you really like for a specific topic, and then use those blogs as a kind of guide to the rest of the blogosphere. Let the bloggers lead the wayand be prepared to spend some time jumping from link to link! | 