Glad to see the whole “social network ownership” vagueness cleared up, and to see that we agree there! I absolutely agree with you in that regard!

Also glad to see we mesh on the too-freely-used “blogger” term. As opposed to the distinction you draw, however, I think blogger captures any person who writes on the web in a repetitive, chronological fashion: from you to me to Michael Arrington to Fake Steve Jobs. Some are journalists, others enthusiasts, others fiction writers… but all bloggers. To say a “blogger” should or should not do something — unless it involves the basic mechanics of keeping a blog — is overly generalizing, in my view.

Looking forward to hearing your other ideas and reactions after you’ve given them some thought!

There is a lot of what you have written that I want to take some time and think about but I did want to clarify one point. When I said in my post our networks I wasn’t referring to the larger blogger ecosphere. What I was referring to was the network that develops around each individual blogger and the regular readers of that blog who partake in making and responding to comments.

In effect you have your own network here as you reply to comments made about your posts and then your readers in turn comment on them. How much more social is that and if this interaction grows over time then yes you have a network of people who if you meet on another blog you have already a pattern of friendship in place so your conversation there will be affected by that.

Additionally I would like to say to a couple of the commenters who have a problem with the whole blogger naming I feel exactly the same way. I think that the moment a blogger steps over a fuzzy line of a blog being a personal space to one where they begin offering up opinions and thoughts on things like technology they have stopped being a blogger per se. It is my feeling that they have become the equivilent of a digital columnist rather than a “blogger”.

@Sierra Alpha Mike - Sometimes those personal posts are what makes a post so great. The majority of the posts on my site (SheGeeks) are very much from a personal stand point. Sometimes, that’s all you can do. You can’t always speak for everyone nor remain objective on everything. You have feelings and are human. In being objective, sometimes you have to remove your personality from the posts. We can’t all do that, and I’d rather a blogger didn’t do that.