I was perusing my old email archives, just nosing around and cleaning things up when I found this old email from December 19, 2000. What caught my eye was the reference to weblogs:
Hi "jlandrith2"
I was surfing geocities and checked out your site at geocities/jlandrith2. I have a good friend with a really similar site, and I passed your url along to her. Have you ever seen a weblog? I was noticing your writing style, and I think the weblog format might really work well for you. I just started one recently, and I am actually thinking of dumping my homepage in favor of just having the weblog, since I'm enjoying it so much more than maintaining my homesite. Anyway, I really just wanted to say thanks for an interesting site!
Just for the fun of it I clicked on the link above, which sends you to a page that tells you the site has moved. Going on to that new url sends you to one of the million cybersquatting firms out there. Intrigued, I decided to do a quick search for Ms. Broussard. It seems she's a figment. A ghost. A marketing ploy. And a good one. It fooled me.