A fine point and something I'd been meaning to add to this entry and KEPT FORGETTING.

While I do argue that weblogs are Net_People -- they are never ever ever to be confused with Real_People. As xfrosch explains in the link above, the impression you gain from a weblog can have very little to do with the real person.

I think the impression you gain from a weblog is very useful... it's just unlikely that it's useful in understand the real person behind the weblog.