Nicole Hill blogs famously!

Context
Nicole Hill is my cousin and is now famous because of her blogs on Blogspot. She was featured in Utah Valley Magazine. She appears in the article 50 Most Interesting People. Admittedly, she is an interesting person! But it does seem strange that blogs can be rated on their interesting-ness. I haven't really delved into blog sites beyond the social sites like Facebook and MySpace. Recently I have gone to several friends blogs and was really capivated by them. I found out some really intersting things about even members of my own family. I think it is interesting what people decide to make public about themselves. I guess I should create a personal blog page because knowing that I am an avid reader, people are always asking me what they should read. I could put my list of favorite books on my blog and talk about what I am currently reading (although I doubt anyone else would want to read Multiliteracies!). I think it might make me more interesting to have a blog, plus I would have a kind of journal, though not very private!
How I could use it in my class
I don't think Nicole's blog would be that useful per se, but it might be useful to look at some blogs and see what makes them interesting for others to read. My students might even give me some suggestions. They could then create their own blogs, similar to the ones we are doing here, but with more interesting content. We couldn't use Blogspot since it is filtered at our school, but we do have a blog spot set up for our students. It might even be interesting as a beginning of the year's let's-get-to-know-everyone assignment that all students in the class would have to read and comment on. Of course, the obvious extension would be to use Bradley's idea of creating blog sites for fictional characters.