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I hereby note that this is not a rant, just an observation.

See, Artima has this weblog aggregation thingy for various different programming languages and such, like for example the Python Buzz. I thought, and still think, that it is a nice idea and have registered my feed to it too. (Although I don't have categories let alone category feeds and therefore might often contribute non-Python related entries to it.) There are alltogether around 20 feeds registered to Python Buzz now.

Now, the Python Buzz as whole provides therefore a nice Python-centric aggregation feed, but there's this one problem. The feed doesn't contain the author's credentials. I am sure they will fix this once I get to e-mail them about it, but that's not the point here. The point is that when I read this feed, the source and therefore the "author" of its articles is bluntly just "artima python buzz". Furthermore, it only contains a short excerpt from the article. This way I can't, at all, relate to for who has written the article. And oddly enough this makes the articles seem significantly less interesting, although the excerpts surely contain the exact same words as the original.

I conclude that for me the content is not, by far, all I am after when I am reading weblogs. You see, personality counts. I want to relate the text to the author's personality. I don't know most of these people whose weblogs I read, but I still have created an image of them and their personality in my mind, and it is an important factor when I am reading their texts.