Blog locators are not just for getting dates

Although blog locators like the one for NYC and automatic blog profile matching looks like a variation on the longstanding promise of the web to play a role datemaking and matchmaking, it seems to have had some positive results in other ways. One student reports that he has found a person blogging in his neighborhood in Paris who works for an agency he is hoping to interview with. No results from the match yet, but a success story nonetheless.