Cyber Hemingway

Do you ever get the feeling that the bloggosphere is turning into Hemingway's A Moveable Feast ? The more I read blogs the more I get the impression everyone is talking about the same ten people. We've all started name-dropping like nobody's business and it's made worse by use of first names only as in:

So we were in San José for ABCX when Ben mentioned to Cory that his new book sucked. Turns out Tom was there too, so we shared sushi with him and Cal...

I find myself doing this more and more and I've never met these people (ok, so Tom was at the RMS talk on copyright at the LSE). (arrrgggg!)