> I honestly didn’t care about individual blogs at all when I was a young net user.

Wow. This was me too. I was excited to hop on the Rockman.EXE Online forums and tell people about my homepage I was constantly redesigning/rebuilding.

> The defeatist in me feels like I will just never have that same feeling again online.

I feel you, but I’m still chasing that. Close circles are where it’s at though, maybe we gotta be happy with that. SIGH