From Wired:

Survivalists live off the grid, but Hodder hates being without it — even for a few minutes. She’s more of an interface grrl. “I will go far out of my way to get my next connection to the internet, via phone or my laptop,” she said. “It’s everything.”

In some ways, her so-called digital life has become more real to her than reality. She checks friends’ blogs, scans their comments, follows the same links, mulls the same information, shares her thoughts via discussion threads or by posting comments on napsterization.org — and it’s all hyperlinked, searchable and browseable, depending on the tools available. Although Hodder may be physically disconnected from her friends, they’re never really far away, represented by digital word sculptures they make together. “They create content, I read or point to it in my blog or modify it, and they do the same,” Hodder said.

She isn’t an aberration. On the contrary, she’s a trend. Most of her friends — many of them geeks and ubergeeks — live this way, the internet at the center of their relationships. Hodder is one of a growing number of technophiles whose lives are one big Wikipedia (a web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit). And the life she leads may foreshadow yours.

I often hear news from my friends first not because I talk to them, but because I subscribe to their RSS feeds. Yeah. I’m an ubergeek.