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Last year, a local entrepreneur, spent the entire year posting to a blog called Plain Layne -- a blog about a woman and her dramatic escapades. It read like a soap opera and generated traffic with daily numbers in the thousands. The comments on the various posts were amazing participatory dialogue that only added to the overall dramatic effect. Then, in June 'Layne' disappeared. Her readers turned into detectives and tracked down the actual author. The resulting media blitz was fascinating. Turns out, the author, one Odin Soli, was a writer in need of a novel. So he blogged it. Check out this article in City pages http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1230/article12271.asp. Fictional blogs are really fun. But now that we're onto them, I doubt they'll ever be as fun as 'Plain Layne' -- when we were all fooled.