I may have come across as a little snide about blogs below--yes, I appreciate the irony in talking about blogs in a blog, but my (and Schultze's) point about trying to add to discourse can still hold water--it's been tough trying to carry out Blogathon and spending a day at home with my wife--with AOL plodding along on my dialup, and I feel this obligation to the screen at the expense of this real person next to me. Flesh instead of bytes, that's a workable priority order for me.