It's not even February 14 yet but the bloggers are all full-o-love. There's a lot going around right now about blog crushes. And maybe not coincidentally, the words "I don't even know you" seem to be appearing quite frequently too. But does that really matter?

When we create a blog, it becomes our online persona. All the world's a web browser, Shakespeare wrote, and all the men and women merely bloggers. Well I'm sure he would have said that if they had blogs back then.

When we post a blog entry, we can't help but write as our blog persona. It's all role-playing. Imagine a great big costume party, in which several people in superhero masks and tights declare their affections for the person in the lederhosen. Meanwhile, several others in hamster outfits attack a team of Clark Gable impersonators, who are rescued by a pair of Zorros and a gorilla. Watching the mayhem are a sixpack of Judy Garlands (of which only one is actually a woman), an alien, and a gaucho. There's also a Starfleet captain in an ill-fitting polyester uniform, but he's sitting by himself in the corner, talking to the plant.

I lost the point in that somewhere. If anyone finds it, please let me know.