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Among other things, anyone whom I've never met but who is otherwise well-known, is probably engaged in punditry rather than personal blogging. There are borderline cases (Mark Cuban, say) but you get the idea.

Of the remaining "Personal Blogs," people whom I haven't met:
Jeff from Beautiful Atrocities (not sure if I've ever known his last name)
Rick Stuart, KFOG afternoon guy
Any of the servicemen who contribute to BlackFive
John Heaton (Blue Armadillo), though I think Coen et al have met him
Suzi from Diary Date (also maintains the anti-Spyware blog)
Kim Swygert (the psychometrician from #2 Pencil)
Jesse Walker (Perpetual Jet Lag)
Any of the servicemen who contribute to Sgt. Stryker
Laurence Simon (This Blog Is Full of Crap)

So I've met 75% of the people whose weblogs are on that roll. In order, here those people are; school affiliations listed only because I met a vast majority of these people via their particular college affiliation; people who DIDN'T do quiz-bowl (that I know of) in italics (vast majority are/were into qb):
Mike Develin (Harvard) (and I think even he went to some practices and a tournament once), Mark Coen (BU), Brian Ulrich (Wisconsin), Jon Couture (BU), Victoria Groce (Georgia), Brick Barrientos (Maryland), Greg Sorenson (BU), James Quintong (Northwestern), Anthony De Jesus (CWRU), Scott Monty (BU), James Dinan (GW), Julie Stahlhut (MIT/WMU), Matt Levine (UC-Berkeley), Michael (Harvard), Paul Lujan (Harvard), Mike Philpy (Dartmouth/Michigan), Scott Wickham (MIT), Maribeth Mason (Illinois/Caltech), Brian Hight (Virginia), Eric Bell (Oklahoma), Dan Passner (Brandeis), Chris Nolte (Stanford/Caltech), Dwight Kidder (Cornell), Richard Mason (Harvard/Caltech), Craig Barker (Michigan), Joe Wright (Pitt/USC/Michigan).

The results are in: Of 36 blogs on that blogroll...
2 are group-blogs by people, none of whom I've met
7 are blogs by individuals I've never met
4 are blogs by individuals I've met through something other than quiz-bowl
23 are blogs by individuals I've met through quiz-bowl