The Web the Way It Was: "Thanks to new easy-to-use software, the number of weblogs on the Net seems to be growing at an unprecedented rate." (I used Blogger's BlogThis!TM feature to make this post. ;)) hehe.
brig has some thoughtful comments on friendship. mediated relationships are relationships. they are emotional. perhaps not as rich, satisfying, or complex as direct relationships. but they are not meaningless. they are not bits in ether. they are people communicating with people. I could not be one person here and another person there. I am me. mediated.