Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

When I saw the traffic logs yesterday for my blog, a very strange trend showed consistently throughout the two weeks: other than beloved MSN and Google, the only referrers were blogs of people whom I know. Setting the gears that stayed unused for two years into motion yet again, I began to realise that the singularity of a blogosphere, as traditional media all over the world like to refer to, instead exists as clusters of self-confined spheres.

Take for example the most famous bloggers in Singapore. Mr Brown, Mr Miyagi and Xia Xue really are an encased clique - they hang out together, write about each other, and essentially link to each other. Similarly, other bloggers usually write about things that happen within their small blogosphere group. While there is overlapping of the sphere between groups, there is no contact between the bloggers connected to A and bloggers connected B, even if A and B are connected to each other.

To be precise, our blogs are mostly a reflection of our relationship, much like MySpace or Friendster on a macro scale (without all the advertisements too!).

A huge difference between blog social networking and physical relationships is that online, a writer is judged by his work. If she is good enough, someone from another blogosphere might take notice, and draw attention to the interesting piece. A domino effect starts when everyone who reads the blog likes it, and link to it from their own blog - thus another blogosphere surrounding that popular blog is started.

Now does anyone want to create a blogosphere around me? Pretty please?

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