I'm wondering what the emotional drivers are behind the small spate of blog re-designs and platform changes I've noticed of late. I mean, it's not like loads of people are changing but, of the blogs I tend to visit, it seems like it's the soup du jour; Winer, Euan Semple, Mark Pilgrim, Shelley's in the middle of some changes and Frank's thinking about binning Radio and moving to Movable Type as I did a couple of months back.

But, since blogs can sometimes be intimate personal extensions of ourselves, or at least components of our personal identities, you'd think that there might be a vaguely tenable emotional connection, either in terms of effecting a change or being motivated to do so, or a change having a resultant emotional effect on you.

I read the other day that doctors believe that it is now possible to carry out face transplants. Besides the fact that the not inconsiderable moral issues associated with this notion are just plain freaking me out, in a meta meta-physical sense I can't help but discern some kind of parallel between changing certain aspects of your face (or whole face) and doing the same with aspects of your blog template.

But that's me.