Oh, cool! There are a lot of neat metaphorical names out there for the collected efforts of we bloggers, e-journal writers, and online essayists. "The Blogosphere" is the most popular, obviously. Along that line, I would prefer "The Blogiverse", personally, but ultimately my favorite is "Blogistan", the suffix of which characterizes blogs as a kind of realm-unto-themselves where outside concerns might not matter as much, and where there is constant "battling" among camps (although blogger battles are infinitely preferable to the kind you find in real-life places whose names end with "stan"). But I've just come across a really nifty new one, based not on cosmology or geography but on biology:
The Islets of Bloggerhans.
Now that is a terrific metaphor! It comes from the Islets of Langerhans, which are the groups of cells scattered throughout the pancreas that make insulin and other enzymes essential to digestion. It's also one of the few poetically-named biological features; the name sounds more like a place that Gulliver should have visited on one of his travels.
(The article in which I see this term for the first time is a takedown of Glenn Reynolds and the whole "Cruz Bustamante is a racist" thing that I'm not paying much attention to, because I'm not in California.)
The personal blog of author Kelly Sedinger, chronicling the adventures of one overalls-clad wanderer.
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