----- Original Message ---- From: David Brake <d.r.brake@lse.ac.uk> ...It is true that (non-friend/password protected) bloggers are making their material available to be read. But in my own interviews (with 22 personal webloggers) their imagined and desired relationships with readers varied widely and a few of them said they had no intention to be read by anyone else when they started. We need to leave room for the people we study to fool themselves on issues like this (one of the central points of my upcoming thesis in fact!) Hmm, I don't believe that they are being totally honest with you or themselves, David. They may not have *expected* anyone to read it, (so many blogs, so little time), but if they didn't secretly *hope* to find some sort of audience, they wouldn't have set up a networked blog in the first place. Sounds like a face-saving kind of statement to me. In any case, I'd like to hear more at some point. Rhiannon