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[tetsuoxb]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7080837/site/newsweek/

Dear Newsweek,

I get it alright, you need a cute word for the world of bloggers. Guess what assholes, that world is the same world as your stodgy print magazine. Even though you are the USA Today of news weeklies, do you have to consistently sound so fucking stupid? Your "The Passion" article last year was completely retarded, but I forgave you. However since the election cycle you have latched onto this blogosphere, which has to be the most offensive word since japanimation, and singlehandedly pushed for it to become a buzz word ingrained in the minds of Americans who think movable type is still a 17th century innovation. Is "in the world of bloggers" or "the blogger's world" so long that it had to be shortened into something so inherently ridiculous sounding? Wait, your magazine is ridiculous, and I am asking a circular question. Sorry. Keep writing about the "blogosphere" so I am reminded about how irrelevant and stupid your magazine is.

tetsuoxb

PS. Do NOT do another PSP cover story. You will just make it sound stupid.

 

[karasu]

Who the fuck says Blogosphere

 

[8bit]

People who beg for money on the internet in exchange for their musings.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Is "in the world of bloggers" or "the blogger's world" so long that it had to be shortened into something so inherently ridiculous sounding?

I don't think that's inherently any more ridiculous than "web log" becoming "blog", another word which I've thought for a long time sounds stupid; might as well go with weblo or weog. But then I figured as long as the people doing it decided the term was fine enough, I really have no grounds for complaint. Same with blogosphere.

 

[aoi tsuki]

i think the only times i've heard the word "blogosphere" used was by news media. Similarly, i wish the words "cyberspace" and "hackers" would be removed from the mainstream media's vernacular.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Yeah I'm still not sure who felt the need to shorten weblog. Were 'W' and 'E' contracted out to another engagement at the time? Blog sounds stupid to me.

 

[Agent Dormer]

BLOGSPHERE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Escape Goat]

This is the first time I've heard the word.

 

[Drozmight]

I bet there's a dark room somewhere in the back of newsweek were people open hate mail and...

 

[Archaix]

This is the first time I've heard the word.

I just heard it for the first time two weeks ago at an ethics speech given by...I don't know, some guy. He had an important sounding resume back then, but he didn't say a god damn thing so I just sort of forgot much of it. Anyway, since he said it, I've heard it from a few other people quite a bit. Or, at least, "quite a bit" in comparison to "never before".

 

[fennec fox]

Instapundit uses the word "blogosphere" all the time; only one of the author's extremely annoying writing habits.

 

[xsarien]

Since we're venting, I'll pay cash money to Gamespot if they stop saying "arena" when referencing an overall aspect of something.

They also use "a la" more than I'd like, too.

 

[impirius]

Next stop on the Information Superhighway: the Blogosphere!

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

Wow, I'm surprised people are treating it this way. The truth is, the word blogosphere was coined years ago by Bill Quick of obnoxious right-wing blog Daily Pundit, and it's been used quite a lot on blogs, usually in the context of self-aggrandizement, before Newsweek et al ever picked up on it. The word does kinda suck but it's not a mainstream media thing.

 

[masud]

Wow, I'm surprised people are treating it this way. The truth is, the word blogosphere was coined years ago by Bill Quick of obnoxious right-wing blog Daily Pundit, and it's been used quite a lot on blogs, usually in the context of self-aggrandizement, before Newsweek et al ever picked up on it. The word does kinda suck but it's not a mainstream media thing.

I have never heard the term blogosphere in my entire life.

 

[GG-Duo]

i've always thought it's blogsphere. no o.

 

[Miguel]

Never heard it. I call them journals anyway.

<---:lol

 

[Ferd]

There's a terrible new show on MSNBC that's all about the blogisphere. Ron Reagan and some blonde chick.

 

[impirius]

There's a terrible new show on MSNBC that's all about the blogisphere. Ron Reagan and some blonde chick.

Connected has a good concept, but the execution is lacking. And I have no idea why Ron Reagan is hosting; he only works in the "smarmy color commentator" role from what I've seen.

 

[Mandark]

Instapundit uses the word "blogosphere" all the time; only one of the author's extremely annoying writing habits.

Instapundit? You're out of the will.

 

[MIMIC]

:lol Yeah. I cringed the first time I heard the word "blogsphere." (it was right after the Dan Rathers/Bush service debacle).

I can't believe they still use it. It's such a stupid word.

 

[Andy787]

This whole sudden facination the mainstream news organizations have over blogs is, in general, extremely fucking retarded. I can't stand the mainstream media to begin with, with their constant splooging over inane, rediculous buzz words and phrases that are so utterly stupid sounding that only news stations could be pardoned for saying such blather, but suddenly jumping on blogs as the big new thing to shit their pants over, and especially coining such horrible, horrible terms as 'blogosphere' just brings it to a whole new level of stupidity. It is sad, that our news is nearly as rediculous as any number of shows you would typically find on E! or MTV.

 

[impirius]

This whole sudden facination the mainstream news organizations have over blogs is, in general, extremely fucking retarded. I can't stand the mainstream media to begin with, with their constant splooging over inane, rediculous buzz words and phrases that are so utterly stupid sounding that only news stations could be pardoned for saying such blather, but suddenly jumping on blogs as the big new thing to shit their pants over, and especially coining such horrible, horrible terms as 'blogosphere' just brings it to a whole new level of stupidity. It is sad, that our news is nearly as rediculous as any number of shows you would typically find on E! or MTV.

It's just the pendulum swinging. At first, web-based journalism (by whichever name you want to call it) was ignored and belittled by the mainstream media. Now they're fawning over it. I imagine things will even out over the next few years.

 

[Andy787]

I just gotta say;

Hahahahaha.

This shit needs to be resized to proper banana proportions, stat.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I just gotta say;

Hahahahaha.

This shit needs to be resized to proper banana proportions, stat.

I was originally going to wait until DS beat out PSP in one of the weekly charts, but I got impatient and made it into an avatar instead. Here are two variations.