These, then, are the blogs of our lives. More shifting sandscapes as the world gets on board with the independent publishing world of blogs. In China the first site using real names, not pseudonyms, has been set-up for invited academic bloggers to express opinion on social issues. In Malawi, the blogging community mourns the death of local 27-year-old pioneer Mangaliso Jere while Spain continues to celebrate the world's oldest blogger.   

It is getting easier and easier to find blog content thanks to recent algorithmic upgrades to both the Google Blog Search and Technorati (tag search works best). Meanwhile you can reach back in archival time using the incredible Wayback Machine to see what web pages looked like in the past. But is all this just heading for a world of "depressive lonelyhearts who substitute the artificial community of blog readers and writers for real-world relationships with actual people"?