In reply to Matthias Melcher.

I agree with your conclusions, Matthias — “However, blog respondents are not anonymous mass products. They have a background. They care about the topic I write about, and I care about theirs ... This is all missing when I process suggestions from a machine that does not know me and that I don’t know (I don’t even know what it knows and what it merely confabulates, and at what point its algorithm switches to the live web to look up more).”