“No matter what virtual personae I may create, they are all personae of the person typing the words, a person with a social security number and a single, fleshy body that is not nearly as nimble as its online voices are” (Small Pieces Loosely Joined, P. 175)

In talking about the close relationship of online personae and the “person behind the words” (or “behind the blog”), this observation brings to the surface a long standing problem I sense: that I often, to my chagrin, find myself feeling a LOT LESS articulate, a lot more impatient, and a lot less convincing than I perceive myself to be online. In other words, I have comments and emails about my weblog which express appreciation for the things I explore in my weblog. Offline, face-to-face, my experience is often dominated by that “glazed over” look I get (or perceive) from “recipients” of my offline rants. This comes from family members, acquaintances, and is probably ocurring by some of the Weblog readers from whom , of course, I will NEVER hear. The offline, face to face “failures” highlight the difference between the online personae I have, and even “feel” as I sit in front of my computer with my Weblog software fired up and ready to post some new thought, some new “discovery” via another’s blog thoughts or their blog discoveries pointing to another.