I'm also wondering, is there something inherently anti-mainstream about blogging? The idea that it's just you and your thoughts against the world, with no editors, no supervisors, no authorities to answer to--is that liberating in a way that is mutually exclusive with the notion of blogging going mainstream? Meanwhile, do we need the "old institutions" to rant against for blogging to be blogging? Let me know what you think by e-mail.