Manal and Alaa's bit bucket free speech from the bletches

I think the reason they still ask that question is that they're not as familiar with blogs as you and other bloggers are. You've already gotten over the fact that blogs exist and that they're fscinating bla bla. But to most people who don't blog or read blogs that much, it's still a fairly new thing.

This kind of thing probably falls into the new media category but i think soon enough people will get over it and start asking quetions about the content of blogs as opposed to just the existence of the blog.