Another random look has be checking out Meadering in malta I'll have to read through this one and enjoy some travels that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do.
This reminds me of Robert Silverberg's Majipoor Chronicles. A fantastic series randomly recommended to me by a strange in a mall because I juggle and the main character juggles also. At one point in the series, Lord Valentine uses a device that allows him to visit recorded memories of people as if he were in their body. Blogging is the early non visual stage of this. Eventually we will move to video snippets of our lives and that will lead to a way to instantly plug those into another person's mind so that the "memory" can be experienced faster than real time. Imagine getting to live several lifes!