Learning about blogs

The true wonder of the internet, especially in terms of its free aspects, like blogs, is just how much education you can get for free, and that there's always someone willing to pitch in and help you out for no consideration at all. My lack of absolute clarity about what 'blogs' are about, led me into a confrontation with blogexplosion.com, a free service that promotes traffic exchange between blogs. They declined to accept my blog in their exchange for the reason that it was not 'active', ie., no post since the original post in Jan 2005. I saw red on this one, since their WERE what, in my opinion, constituted 'posts'to my blog, in the form of comments from myself as well as outside visitors. I got really mad about what I saw essentially as a cold and technical approach to a real, human issue.. the subject of my blog,, the Asian Tsunami disaster, which is probably the worst NATURAL disaster (there have been worse human-made disasters) the world has seen in a long long while. But they (represented by Rachel) over at blogexplosion persisted in their stand, and ultimately I saw that I had made a mistake in not understanding what blogs really are.. that there is a big technical difference between a 'post' and a 'comment'.. which is what Rachel.. and I AM grateful to her for her patience.. helped me to figure out. Which brings me back to the original line in this POST: the internet is a great place to get a free education. But I still maintain: when one is discussing or highlighting something of enormous human importance, should we be sticking to impersonal technical definitions? Is the law that we seem to serially lay down, one way or another, eg., Microsoft Windows flashing its infamous 'This program has performed an ILLEGAL operation and will be shut down'.. or what the difference is between 'post' and 'comment' on a blog.. more important than our essential humanity?
At this point I must say that I'm not an American.. I'm Asian, though if you met me face to face you wouldn't know the difference..the myth is that Americans are a cold and commercial sort of people.. but I find they are as emotional and volatile as us Eurasians.. as was demo'd when I made my complaint to blogexplosion, and received a passionate and emotional response, a HUMAN response (thank you Rachel), which usually one does not get from our own so-called more 'emotional' and 'humane' societies..now, if only all that emotion could help everyone see beyond themselves...
Hatch