The most popular blogging sites are wordpress http://wordpress.com/, blogger http://blogger.com/, Vox http://vox.com/ and Travelpod http://www.travelpod.com/.
The blogosphere is world of bloggers: the World Wide Web environment in which bloggers communicate with each other or you can just read other people blog around the world.
'Bing Dictionary'
Companies and organisations would use blogs to promote their products and find out what the consumer would like/want, so this can gives business ideas on what sort of products the consumer actually want this is a market research technique.
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog" was coined by Peter Merholz.
By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war and other issues and cemented blogs' role as a news source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
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