I've found that with all the recent traffic to the site, I've been reluctant to write more in the blog because the biggest news is all the traffic coming to AOLiza, and for all you first-timers coming here, that sounds pretty self-referential (which is fine, this is a personal weblog, after all) and egotistical (which isn't as cool). So bear with me. I encourage people coming here for the first time to look around, and check back now and then to see what's new.

Anyhow, suffice to say I had to do a lot of work yesterday throwing up a few mirrors of the site to handle twin stories from ABCNews and CNN. I think Wired is going up today, and I've been getting a healthy flow of traffic from UserFriendly (thanks Rachel!!).

I love the different levels people think about AOLiza. At first it was all about humor at the expense of AOL folk (other people's take, not mine). Then the conversations turned toward the ethical implications, then the sociological implications (if people can't tell this is a bot, how will bot communications evolve in the future? Watch out AskJeeves!).

In a nutshell, a lot of very interesting questions have been raised and I'm looking forward to seeing where the discussion goes. I'll be putting up my thoughts here as time permits.

Alos, on the Cameo front: Due to the huge current tax on my bandwidth, I can't put up the cameo pictures for another few days, until the traffic dies down. Those who are interested in the project (and I hope it's everyone, no wait, then I'd still have the bandwidth problem, aw, hell!) should come back next week and take a look. If you don't thikn you'll remember, go ahead and go to the cameo home page now and enter your email address and I'll drp you a note when the content goes up!