Okay, just dredged the comments- point to Rands. Though data-minability seems more a density function of homepages than anything else.

I guess the question is... you people actually, honestly, find the 'trust network' thing useful? I mean, sure, I can usually *tolerate* people my friends know, but they also tend to do things like rip off my watch, and the barriers to 'Annoying Kid Brother' syndrome are much lower on the web. (Adding someone to your friends list doesn't mean you actually have to acknowledge their existence except on interrupt. In real life, you actually have to, say, spend time around the person.)

It's different for development projects, but does that mean we're going to call a project site hosting a changelog and a links page a blog?